Re: [Nautilus-list] re: Desktop folder

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Try connecting to your system from a Windows machine when your system is
running Samba.  Windows will happily put all sorts of goodies in your
$HOME without asking.

Here are a few examples:
Application Data
Cookies
Desktop
History
mmssetup.exe  ???
NetHood
Recent
USER.DAT

Now imagine the user saying what the...where did all that come from.

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:55, David Moles wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:43, Marten Payne wrote:
> > 
> > So the problems presented by making the Unix style home directory the
> > Nautilus (and therefore Ximian) desktop directory are mostly related to
> > the issue of not every program in the Unix pantheon being part of the
> > GNOME, rather it is the other way around. While it may be the most
> > effective way to work for highly intelligent, structured, logical
> > thinkers like Tuomas and others, I suspect usability testing on the mid
> > 80% of people would show to be a sub-optimal approach.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying non-desktop-aware Unix apps would
> be adding and deleting files to/from $HOME and confusing the user? I'm
> using $HOME as my desktop right now and nothing ever appears there that
> I don't put there through some action such as "Save as".
> 
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