Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 17:26, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > 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".
> > 
> > Or we could just rename the $HOME icon on the desktop to "Documents" for
> > the same result with much less trouble...
> > 
> 
> With the difference that we would have a "Desktop" folder in Documents,
> which would sound strange... 

That's why I wouldn't use the term "Documents". Home works very well for
this and it certainly makes sense to have a Desktop in your Home. The
Home icon on your Desktop could be argued.

> and file selectors would then default to
> Documents instead of Desktop.

File selectors will default to whatever we want to default them to.
Legacy file selectors can be fixed, certainly easier than legacy
applications writing to $HOME. :) And in the case of a "broken" file
selector, a simple workaround exists: Clicking on the Desktop folder
before saving the file.

Daniel