Re: Feature request for nautilus/desktop navigation

[Christof Krüger <gnome pop2wap net>]

Hello Cliff,

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:18 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just thought I'd post this here to start a argume^Wdiscussion about this
> idea:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441928

personally, I dislike the idea for the following reasons:

1. I can imagine people "loosing" files somewhere on the file system
just because they have dragged something onto the desktop while it was
currently set to display /home/johndoe/pictures/2007/from_camera/temp
for example.

2. Similar to #1: Several programs default to store files on the desktop
by default (e.b. web browsers). "Which" desktop will it be? The actual
desktop, the folder it is currently displaying? How is the user supposed
to know?

3. You can move icons on the desktop around and resize them. Placing
files and folders on the desktop in addition to what is already there
would result in a mess.

Regards,
  Christof Krüger