Re: rant about ~/Templates [Was: Re: spacial]



On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:23 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:17 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 10:04 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > > Create a ~/Templates/ directory
> > > 
> > > Is there an easy way to throw this directory out of view for people
> > > using ~/ as desktop?
> > 
> > We've still got .hidden file support in nautilus from gnome 2.4.
> 
> I didn't know (or remember) that dir existed! Thank you very much!!
> 
> > Make a file called .hidden and list files you want to hide. It's no more
> > crackful than using ~ as desktop </flame> ;)
> 
> I'm not flaming, or at least that's not my intention, but I simply can't
> understand why this way it is "crack", and the other it is not (and
> there has not been any reasonable explanation other than that's the way
> Windows and others -- like KDE -- do it).

No, I was flaming your choice of ~ as desktop ;) Just a joke, don't
worry about it.

My opinions completely relate to the ability to have files that don't
clutter up your desktop (since /home is generally the only writable part
of a system). But this probably isn't a constructive conversation to
have again.
-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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