[Usability] The home directory and the desktop

[BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com>]

A minor irritation of mine. gnome-terminal opens in the home
directory, other apps open in $HOME/Desktop. Then i found this
http://gnome-hacks.jodrell.net/hacks.html?id=2 and it solved my
problem. No more two places that are basically the same! And no
"Desktop" directory that really should be named "Skrivbord" here :).
So my question is, why isn't this GConf key on by default?

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mvh Björn