Re: [Usability]Desktop directory vs. hidden dir

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 11:55, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> 1) AFAIR Nautilus2 is able to use $HOME as desktop directory. If you
> decided to use your desktop background the windows way -- that means
> as trashcan ;-) -- why don't you use this option of Nautilus2?.

yeah, if i gonna buy some beer in my local store (50 meters away from my
home) then i should charter a plane or helicopter.

> 2) If you have reasons not to use $HOME as desktop dir, but need to
> access your desktop dir often. Why don't you use the power of your
> UNIX-like system then and create a symlink (alias) for the hardcoded
> hidden desktop dir:
> 
>       $ ln -s ~/.hidden-name ~/visible-name
> 
> 
> IHMO making the desktop dir visible has exactly one problem: It's
> another step to make GNOME annoying for technical oriented users like
> me: I really don't care about having the chance to put trash on my
> desktop and it really would annoy me to see -- the for me usesless
> desktop directory --  day by day.

yes you are technical oriented user. let me shake your hands.

you probably skipped 90% of my first email otherwise you have read my
last paragraph containing exactly following lines.

> > i know you can bypass this situation in several ways by creating a
> > link or wait for gnome x.x to get some cool new fileselectioboxes
> > which probably contains a 'desktop' button which imediately opens
> > the desktop folder as in KDE. but right now it's really not very
> > usable.

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