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

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 12:24, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:49:49PM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > David Moles <david moles vykor com> writes:
> ><snip>
> > > 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.
> 
> Find that one rare pixel of the desktop which is visible and right-click.
> Select  New Window  from the menu.

Does work, but now that I think about it it's not clear enough what
that does. I guess it opens a new window to ~/, regardless of where
you open it from? From a web-browser-metaphor perspective I suppose
that makes sense. I don't personally like it (new window with the
same location as the current window would make more sense to me),
but that's okay.

I still think "view desktop as window" (or similar) might be a 
useful thing to have in general.