Re: volumes mark 2

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

What about instead creating these folders in the homedir and put by
default .desktop files (or symlinks?) on the desktop?

What I mean is:

~/Desktop

and

~/Documents
~/Images
etc


On the Desktop you would see "Documents", "Images", etc and instead you
would _not_ have "User's Home".

IMHO this way you would reach your goals while  having the following
advantages:

* no home-Desktop loop

* still preserving the unix concept of homedir (not-gnome apps and the
shell would simply see ~/documents etc)

* not exposing to the user the fact that Desktop is directory; this is
IMHO quite important, since users think of the desktop as a special
place not as a root for a hierachy. In other words in the file selector
Desktop would be one of the roots (maybe the default one), but would not
have subfolders.


IIRC this is also pretty much the way Windows works:
each user has his part of the filesystem (equivalent to home) which
contains, among other things Desktop and Documents.


ciao
	paolo