Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 10:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> BTW. I already have a Desktop folder. It contains stuff of my own and
> it would be a real Nautilus bug if upgrading gnome had it pissing in
> directories that were none of its business. Thats something whoever looks
> at this has to resolve.

Nautilus will display that directory, but it won't create desktop files
in it like it used to.

> Finally regardless of whether it is a good idea or bad to make Desktop
> more obvious I'm wondering what the expected user result of dragging the
> Desktop icon from the file manager home directory view to the desk top is
> and how you will make it consistent with other parts of the system ?

If you drag ~/Desktop on to the desktop, you will get a message telling
you that you can't move a file into itself.

-dave