Re: [Usability] Hide the Desktop folder

["Miguel A. Arévalo" <marevalo marevalo net>]

<irony read_with="a smile">
As we do not want to uglify RedHat upgrades nor reveal the ugliness of
their $HOME to the GNOME Desktop hackers I think you should file a bug
against Nautilus to internationalize the Destop folder any time it is shown.
</irony>

Regards.

Miguel A. Arévalo

Uno Engborg wrote:

> When a user opens his home in Nautilus directory he will see his
> Desktop folder inside it.
> But he may also see the contents of that folder on the desktop,
> provided his Nautilus window
> doesnt cover the entire screen.
>
> This sort of breaks the spatialness of Nautilus. The user could be led
> to believe that  the files
> in the folder representation is a duplicate of what he sees on the
> real desktop and decide to
> delete them, naturally resulting in loss of data.
>
> To make things worse, the Desktop folder is always named Desktop when
> shown inside
> a Nautilus window, but when it is referred to in the places menu and
> in tooltips of the show
> desktop applet the name is translated.
>
> This means that a user using an internationalized version of Gnome may
> not realize that
> he is deleting his desktop if he deletes the "Desktop" folder.
>
> To prevent risk of losing data I would suggest hiding the Desktop
> folder in Nautilus and just let the users
> se the files on the actual desktop.
>
> Regards
> Uno Engborg
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