Re: Volume handling proposal

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 03:37, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Another option is to write off "Home" as a unix implemenation detail and not 
> > include a link on the desktop. The file selector could default ~/Desktop as 
> > the default folder in this situation, and users might never know about 
> > "home". Its probably better to encourage users to save files to the desktop 
> > by default anyway so that they are easily discoverable and can be easily 
> > manipulated. Users can than create desktop folder such as 
> > "Desktop/Documents", "Desktop/Music" etc. to store these files in. 
> 
> This is the desktop-as-home metaphor that dave likes I think. It might
> be a good idea. I'm not against removing the Home link on the desktop.
> If we make the file-selector start in ~/Desktop this would probably work
> well.

There are a few more things that need to be done - ephy needs to
download there by default, the screen shooter needs to save there.  But
it seems tractable.

-dave