On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:02, Luca Cappelletti Infodomestic.com wrote: > Hello, > I don't know if this is the right place to propose my point of view regarding home user filesystem hierarchy. I think that some of it is at least relevent because you're testing gnome on windows users. > Every Shared folder rapresent a link to the > home->Shared->usernameX->Documents If launchers weren't so broken you could probably use .desktop files instead of symbolic links. But anyway, the stuff related to file sharing isn't really relevant to the desktop i don't think > I've tried to learn thinking about simplicity and one way to do thinks. > I think that is necessary to include:Documents,Pictures,Downloads,Multimedia(Audio,Video),Works,System folders to accomodate immediatly necessity from the user to understand where are resources without learning again the wheel.Image users coming from OS X or WinXP. > > Why don't include as default structure and configuration into Gnome sessions (KDE too or GnuSTEP...). I wrote an article that may be related to this: http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/abstract/index.html Also having a set of standard folders on the desktop or in home has been discussed before. I use it myself and think that it should be used in gnome by default. Hopefully well get something like this in 2.3/2.4 see also: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-January/msg00273.html -- .--= [ MArk Finlay - sisob ] =--. [ Gnome User's Board : www.gnomesupport.org/forums ] [ Public Key: http://evolvedoo.sf.net/sisobatericomdotnet.asc ]
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