Re: [Usability] The home directory and the desktop

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

I will summary it to you.

Yes, is more logical, but everything else is broken and we all have
their $HOME full of files and dirs.

Regards.

BJörn Lindqvist 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!
>>>      
>>>
>>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.
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>>
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>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?
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