Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 15May2003 02:24PM (-0500), Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 13:24, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > * KDE also uses ~/Desktop, and they put some special files in there. We
> > need to examine how these interact with Nautilus and how we can avoid
> > confusing the user with these files.
> 
> Mac OS X also uses ~/Desktop, which could be an issue for anybody in an
> environment where /home is an NFS mount.  I know there's not a whole lot
> we can do to inter-operate, as Apple probably isn't interested.  But it
> would be nice to do something intelligent with any weird Apple stuff in
> ~/Desktop, even if it's just intelligently ignoring it.

Mac OS X does not put any weird stuff in Desktop (well, besides the
weird stuff it might put in any directory for resource forks and
Finder metadata, but those are all dotfiles).

Mounted volumes are all virtual in-memory objects, the way Alex has
made it work in Nautilus.

 - Maciej