Re: [Usability] The home directory and the desktop

[BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com>]

> On Mi, 2005-07-27 at 18:04 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > 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!
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Everything is possible I guess. But it doesn't stop the sad feeling
you get when you realise, after three years of using Gnome, that your
Gnome experience could have been significantly better had one little
Gconf key been set by default. :/

Could someone please provide me with links to the previous discussions
about this issue? I couldn't find it in the archives. Also this
threads headcount is 4/5 that likes  $HOME == Desktop, so maybe people
aren't as divided on the issue anymore?

-- 
mvh Björn