Re: Default directory for saving screenshots.

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com> writes:

> On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 00:09, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> >    On the screenshooter applet, should we make the default directory
> > for saving the screenshots be ~/.gnome-desktop?  That way, when you
> > take a screenshot, it would put up right away on your desktop.
> 
> Not a bad idea really. I better not get started about this again (hi all
> :) but I do like the idea of visually organizing my files on the
> desktop. But it's probably because I am pretty visual person.
> 
> On another note, maybe it could lookup the desktop name from Nautilus
> preferences, desktop can also be $HOME.

I wanted to add this feature.  However, I wanted to wait until GNOME 2.0
to do so, as nautilus stores this information in GConf, and for 1.4,
there was no such dependency in gnome-core.

-Jonathan