Re: [Usability] The home directory and the desktop

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

Just for the records I also use my Home as my Desktop.

Samuel Abels wrote:

>On Mi, 2005-07-27 at 18:04 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
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>>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!
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>This has been discussed excessively a few times here. Though I happen to
>agree with you (and use Desktop = Home happily since almost a year),
>many others did not. Best search the archives, IIRC somebody posted a
>summary of the benefits and drawbacks of each model.
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>There is also a proposal of a model in which an environment variable can
>be set accordingly, to make it possible for any script (even those that
>are not aware of gconf) to determine the correct location of $HOME and
>the desktop.
>
>-Samuel
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