Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:26, George Farris wrote:
    On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:07, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
    > The desktop directory should just be easily accessible from file
    > selectors.  KDE got it right by calling it ~/Desktop.
    > 
    > -- 
    > Ettore
    
    No KDE got it wrong.  Calling it ~/Desktop clashes with the Microsoft
    environment.  If one logs into a Samba sever that also severs UNIX style
    accounts, MS Windows will populate the ~/Desktop directory with all
    manor of junk.  This is not fun, KDE is just plain wrong here.

Sounds like sharing your homedir r/w with Netatalk to a mac.. you get
all weird crap like "TheVolumeSettingsFolder/",
"TheFindByContentFolder/", "Temporary Items/" etc.. Netatalk itself
creates an .AppleDouble/ dir for the resource forks, but it is at least
a hidden "dotdir" :-)

It's all good otherwise though, but I just share ~/Mac/ because of those
strange folders :-)

Tuomas

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