Re: volumes mark 2

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Paolo Borelli">

> > I wouldn't bother with links on the Desktop, then you're just getting
> > messy for no reason.
> 
> The idea would be to have on the Desktop "Documents" etc and _not_ to have
> $home, as a gentle way to convince novice users to keep things organized
> and do not mess much with special things located in $home.  Of course
> being simple links it's pretty easy for a user getting rid of them and put
> a link to $home if he prefers.

Why bother messing up the Desktop with links? It's the same problem with
this "desktop-as-home" stuff. The Desktop will have a Home icon on it. Users
can create links to stuff in their homedir if they want to, but let's not
confuse their understanding of what Home is, and what the Desktop is. They
can sort that out for themselves if they want to.

- Jeff

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