RE: Volume handling proposal

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> > From: Julien Olivier <julo altern org>
> > 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. 
> > 
> 
> I'm arguing for the removal of the Home icon from the desktop. For better or 
> worst home is not really a good directory for non-technical users to mulling 
> (sic?) around in. They can do alot of damage to their setup by using the 
> home folder especially considering folders like ~/evolution are not hidden. 
> ITs better imo to deem ~/ a system folder that users shouldn't be using to 
> work with files. Instead ~/Desktop and its subfolders should be the users 
> workspace. 
> 

I think that's a very good idea BUT you first have to fix every single
app not using GTK (plain X apps, Blender, QT/KDE apps, OpenOffice -
maybe Michael Meeks and his team are working on this though - and Java
apps) for them to default to ~/Desktop instead of ~/. For example, if
OpenOffice defaults saving files in ~/, a normal using won't be able to
find the files he's saved because they will be _behind_ his visual root
(~/Desktop) and not having Home on the Desktop will make it impossible
to reach it except using the command line.

That said, that could be set as a freedesktop.org standard, couldn't it
?