RE: Volume handling proposal

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 11:05, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > 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.

You don't have to do this at all. You just launch the apps with CWD 
~/Desktop.

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