Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 10:23, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> fre 2003-05-16 klockan 15.57 skrev Sean Middleditch:
> > On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 09:46, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> > > fre 2003-05-16 klockan 15.18 skrev Sean Middleditch:
> > > 
> > > > And where else would those be?  $HOME is the only place you can put
> > > > files.  And don't tell me they need to be hidden, they are made visible
> > > > to begin with for a reason.
> > > 
> > > ... and that reason is?
> > 
> > To access the files within?
> 
> I'm getting confused... are you still talking about the example with the
> evolution directory? I'm starting to think that I have missunder stood
> something, since I can't see any reason to access that directory (other
> then by using evolution)

All apps that do this, I meant.  For example, several IRC clients I've
used require a ~/ddc folder for file transfers.  (probably a bug, but
good luck getting it fixed.)  Several commercial apps, for example
RealPlayer, make folders that store music/video samples and downloads.

There's also self-compiled apps that may need to be installed in a home
directory, creating things like ~/bin or ~/lib.  I've seen a ~/.usr
suggested, but that's not very shell-user friendly.  :(  And there's
still my ~/mnt at home to worry about (for usb-attached storage), ~/tmp
on another system (/tmp can't be world-writable, security issues), and
so on.  Even if we do solve the dumb applications bug, you can't easily
solve the dumb UNIX bug.  :(

> 
> //Snaggen
> 
> 
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