Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[Soeren Sonnenburg <sonnenburg informatik hu-berlin de>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:41, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:52, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> 
>     > I just tried desktop == $HOME. And I do now ask myself why I did not
>     > have it like this from start. The only problem with that solution are
>     > applications that can not be configured to create their working dirs in
>     > $HOME which I consider to be a bug. I would even like to move as many 
>     > ${HOME}/.files as possible to ${HOME}/etc/ (and there without dot) 
>     > which makes much more sense since ${HOME} is like / for the hard disk.
>     
>     You can't change all the apps in the world.
> 
> That is exactly what this is about: most apps *already* work on your
> homedir just fine. There are really not that many programs that create a
> non-hidden dir; most unix/linux software uses a .dotfile  or -directory.
> It's an issue with just a few programs like netscape mail and evolution.

Right there are only very few (in my case only evolution) but most
insist on some dotfile.

FYI: your can change netscape's behaviour by changing

user_pref("mail.directory", "/home/tigert/.netscape/nsmail/");

in .netscape/preferences.js .


Soeren.