Re: Major change in desktop handling

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A Sex, 2003-05-16 às 15:46, Julien Olivier escreveu:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Maybe a good way to solve this is to create a ~/Documents by default.
> X-Chat could then use ~/Documents/DCC to store DCC files and RealPlayer
> could store music in ~/Documents/RealMedia or something like that. I'm
> pretty sure that's how most apps do it on Windows, putting all their
> stuff in "My Documents".

  90% [1] (probably more) of applications out there don't care about
GNOME integration at all.  The end result would be that you either run
only "GNOME compliant" apps, or else get a desktop cluttered with
unsolicited folders.  I want to run non-GNOME apps *and* keep a clean
desktop. $HOME as desktop just makes it really impossible.

  By the way, doesn't KDE use ~/Desktop already?  If so, it makes more
sense to use that too.  Windowmaker uses ~/GNUStep, IIRC (though it has
no "desktop").  We begin to see a pattern here...


[1] no, I can't prove this number, don't ask me that; it's only a
guess/impression.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
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