Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Curtis Hovey <sinzui cox net>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 16:33, Peter Harvey wrote:
> my home directory as my desktop right now and plan to in the future. I
> do this because it means I have consistency between files I access from
> my desktop and files I access from an xterm. (it also means that I keep
> my home directory a *lot* cleaner than I would otherwise).
> 
> How will this patch affect those of us who use their home directory as
> their desktop? Personally I find KDE annoys me because it decides to
> throw a visible Desktop folder in my home directory. Will this be the
> same with Gnome? Will the option remain to not have a Desktop folder?
> Will applications (file requestors, file browsers, etc.) assume that
> Desktop is different from Home?

Things are a lot simpler when $HOME is the desktop--it's obvious and it
encourages me to keep organized.  I really hate asking this:

Will desktop_is_home_dir still be available in gconf?

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