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

[David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

This huge flamewar is so funny, since originally when I started this
thread, I just wanted the desktop directory to not be hidden.

dave :)

On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 05:14, Ben Ford wrote:
> 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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