Re: [Nautilus-list] Integration of gmc and nautilus desktop directories.

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> The other issue at hand is having random unwanted "application setting
> folders" lying on the desktop if it were the homedir. On a heavily used
> system with lots of applications (my own), I only have three, two of
> which can be eliminated by changes to GNOME programs.

Every mail program I know of defaults to putting non-dotfile files or
directories in $HOME. Eg, I run random mail programs from time to time,
and right now I have 5 non-dotfile mail directories in my homedir, and 0
dotfile mail directories. And you're not going to get *all* of those
programs to change their defaults.

I also wouldn't want to see ~/bin on my desktop, but it would be dumb to
have to rename it to something else. I'm sure other people have other
good examples of files they want or need to have in their homedir but
wouldn't want to see on the desktop.

So IMHO, the right thing (if you're going to go with $HOME==Desktop) is
to let the user right click -> "Don't show on desktop", and Nautilus can
just keep a list of those files and not show them.

-- Dan