Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 15:57, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:22, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
>     The easiest way to access the desktop is to have the $HOME as desktop.
>     And for new uses I think this would be the default option since this
>     make the desktop much more useful. OK it's not a good idea to just turn
>     it on since a lot of peoples dektops will be quite useless since they
>     contain to many files... 
> 
> Nah, they'll just finally get around to clean it. Like I did. I had
> *never* seen such a cluttered desktop in my life when I first made
> desktop be $HOME. But it took a day or so to clean it (nautilus works
> great for stuff like that)
> 
> 
> 
>     So I don't know how to solve this, but I realy think that having $HOME
>     as desktop should be the best way from a new user point of view. 
>     
>     Did anyone do any user testing of this?
> 
> If anyone did, I would be interested in hearing about it. I use my
> homedir as the desktop, and it works great here. The only thing that is
> annoying are a few non-hidden dirs that I dont need to be visible, like
> bin/, evolution/, etc.

As always, I crusade against evolution in particular putting visible
non-user-readable crap in the homedire. Its evil, and its a GNOME
application so we should be able to fix it (I don't even bother with
NSMail for example, because its just not going to be fixed).

-Seth