RE: Volume handling proposal

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:54, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:33, Julien Olivier wrote:
> 
> > What's the advantage of storing your documents in ~/Desktop/Documents
> > instead of ~/ ? I mean Home is already on the desktop so I don't see the
> > point of having Home _and_ Documents on your desktop.
> 
> Funnily enough, earlier on in Sun's Mad Hatter^H^H^H^HJava Desktop
> System development I was all for just renaming the desktop "Home" icon
> to "Documents" (since they wanted a "Documents" folder to minimize
> retraining for Windows converts).  
> 
> It seemed to me that anyone who uses a *nix desktop is bound to come
> across something that talks about their "Home" folder at some point
> (possibly even their support desk!), and that if they didn't know what
> it meant then it would be a lot easier to explain that it was just the
> same as their "Documents" folder.
> 
> I didn't win that particular argument this time around though, maybe
> next time :)
> 

I think the two best possible organizations (problems introduced by
legacy/crappy third-party software excepted) are:

 - A "Documents" or "Personal Files" on the desktop (~/Desktop) and
actually pointing to ~/

 - The desktop being ~/ itself and a Documents folder on it (actually in
~/Documents).

The second one being my favourite by far but it seems there are some
problems that make it impossible to consider a valid default.

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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