Re: Volume handling proposal

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:42, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 17:30, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:20, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:56, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I admit I don't use ~=Desktop so I may be biased, but I don't like this.
> > > > Even if it is more elegant in theory, I think it has drawbacks in
> > > > practice: the principal of which is that the desktop doesn't have
> > > > scrolling bars, so what happens when you have more files than those
> > > > which fit on the desktop?
> > > 
> > > Like someone mentioned already, use folders. If you have that many files
> > > on one directory anyway, Nautilus will be uncomfortably slow anyway (it
> > > gets slower if you have TONS of files) - you are better off organizing
> > > your stuff in subfolders by category anyway.
> > 
> > Like I said before, it's not about _me_: it is not a problem _I_ have, I
> > do use subfolders.
> > It's about corner cases: having thousands of file in your homedir it's
> > unpractical and slow, but not broken, having them on the desktop it's
> > broken since the desktop has a fixed size (which btw depends on the
> > resolution).
> > 
> > Defaulting to save stuff on the desktop makes much easier to hit this
> > problem.
> 
> I think the user has a "oh shit this is a mess!" -problem before it
> fills up though.
> 
> But I know what you are talking about. There is a real problem -
> currently stuff *does* get offscreen if you have a lot of files. Or if
> you change your screen resolution to smaller than it originally was. So
> the problem needs to be solved.
> 

Well, why not simply add a scrollbar to the desktop if needed ? I think
it's the most logic thing to do, isn't it ?

> But in general, I think saving on the desktop is a good idea, whether it
> is the homedir or not. Saving there == easy to find the file. Plus it is
> ideal for quick saving of things, like if you need to prepare a zip for
> someone just to mail a few things, you make the zip on the desktop, then
> you can drag it to the evolution composer. Once you sent the mail, just
> drag the zip to the trash. I use the desktop as a temporary storage a
> lot.
> 
> Tuomas
> 
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