Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: [Usability] user levels, etc.

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 12:49, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> David Moles <david moles vykor com> writes:
> 
> > On 2001.11.14 09:32 Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> > > On 12 Nov 2001, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Currently the only two applications on my system that seem to do this
> > > > are Evolution and GNUStep (ie WindowMaker).
> > > 
> > > What is this Nautilus directory I always get in ~/. I never use it for
> > > anything.
> > >
> > [...] 
> > >
> > > If I could just get rid of all these things I gladly use ~/ as my desktop.
> > 
> > On that subject, Nautilus seems to be creating a "david's Home" icon on the
> > desktop even when the desktop is ~/ -- if I delete it, it ends up getting
> > recreated next time Nautilus starts or restarts. Is that expected behavior?
> 
> Yes.  I was going to turn it off in the RH patches, until I started
> finding it pretty darn useful.  Often I have a partially obscured
> desktop.  When I want to do something in the home directory, I find it
> easier to find the home icon and do it in the window, than trying to
> make room on the desktop.

FWIW, I think it's great that it is on the desktop the first time I use
~ as home and I think it's a real PITA that it re-creates itself when I
delete it. If I delete it, it should stay deleted.
Luis

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Luis Villa
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