Re: [Nautilus-list] re: Desktop folder (again)

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

David Moles wrote:

> The Mac has had this for over a
> decade and it blows my mind that no other OS seems to have figured that
> out. (And now with Mac OS X even the Mac doesn't have it any more. I
> won't get into that.)

Maybe there is a reason why  . . . .


> That being the case, *whatever* actual directory the desktop displays
> the contents of suddenly becomes an important place *in the filesystem*,
> regardless of whether you're accessing it through Nautilus, or from the
> shell, or from some other GNOME application, or from some text-mode
> legacy application. If that directory is buried in some hard-to-find
> place -- ~/.desktop, ~/.gnome-desktop, ~/.gnome/Desktop, etc. are all 
> sufficiently hard to find as far as I'm concerned, and ~/Desktop isn't
> much better -- then any files in that directory become unneccessarily
> difficult to access.

But you think that it is perfectly reasonable to instruct me to save my 
Finances.gnucash file (or any other document that I keep in $HOME) in an 
arbitrary subdirectory which is "buried in a hard to find place", IE, I 
can't just type 'cd' to get to it?

If ~/Desktop is unacceptable to you, what makes you think that 
~/Documents would be acceptable to me?

And another thing that I have noticed here a lot.  Calling something a 
legacy app doesn't make it go away and it in no way makes what you are 
creating superior to it.  People have been doing things a certain way 
since long before many of us were even born.  What makes you think they 
are all going to obligingly change their ways of working because you 
decide on it?

-b

* Not directed at you personally, but at the entire community.

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