Re: [Nautilus-list] Bugs and "I tried the desktop as HOME and ...."

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

I agree that we should make the desktop=home idea work correctly before
we argue about the defaults...

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 06:14, Glen Gray wrote:
[snip]
> HOWEVER there are some pretty serious shortfalls the would need to be
> addressed before I'd be happy to have this as the default. These are all
> with the latest Ximian desktop releases (nautilus 1.0.6)
> 
> 1) When changing from normal mode to Home dir as desktop, Trash and home
> and NFS icons etc disappeard. I logged out and logged back in and they
> appeared.

I am working on this problem at the moment.

> 2) When cleaning up I was moving files and folders around to sub dirs.
> Every so often a dir wouldn't appear to move to a dir I was dragging it
> to. On closer inspection of the icon it seems that it did move the
> folder, but left it on the desktop too. i.e. when I open the icon it's
> location in the location bar was the correct new location. If view the
> dir where it was originall it was gone (in this case ~). Very confusing.
> This happened with files too.

I've seen this without desktop=home.