Re: Volume handling proposal

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 07:36, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Tuomas Kuosmanen writes: 
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 03:07, David Adam Bordoley wrote: 
> > 
> > Evolution directory is going to become ~/.evolution so it will be
> > hidden.
> 
> Yeah but you still have the problem of various legacy folders like the old 
> evo folder if people are using older versions. The whole reason for not 
> using Home as the desktop was to avoid exposing users to various 
> implementation detail folders that certain impolite applications dump into 
> home. (I believe acrobat is guilty of this too). IT just seems overall 
> better to me to avoid the potential problems. Home is a fairly unixy concept 
> anyway. 
> 

But why not create a default .hidden file to hide those folders ? 

> That said. I think a user visible mail folder on the desktop that had an evo 
> style mail view and allowed you to interact with your mail like any other 
> file (ie allowed you to delete mail items by dragging them to the nautilus 
> trash can etc.) would be very cool. 
> 
> > 
> > Having desktop the default save location both encourages you to organize
> > your files in a smart way, and also makes it easy to keep your files in
> > order, since you can quickly sort stuff around. 
> > 
> > Plus I tend to sort stuff by task into "piles" on different parts of the
> > desktop, so I know one project is on top right corner and another is in
> > the middle. It's a nice addition and makes it easy to later just create
> > a folder for that stuff in my Work-dir and just drop the whole pile of
> > stuff there. The desktop can really be a lot more than just a pretty
> > wallpaper.. 
> > 
> 
> All I can say is amen!!! :) 
> 
> dave