Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 15:41, kb wrote:
> I can see my desktop, well... on my desktop. There is no need IMHO to
> clutter up my home with a visible directory. That should really be
> hidden in a .desktop directory.

Users of the desktop often want to get to the desktop from outside
nautilus, for example in file selectors or shells.

The desktop is a place for a user to store files.  The user shouldn't
have to know what the name of a hidden directory is to get to their
documents.

-dave