Re: home dir icon

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 11:03, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Did no one ever fix the thing where you lose your Home icon on upgrade
> > of an old ~/.gnome-desktop? I don't see the bug open in bugzilla.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67791
> 
> No. I'm sort of planning to do the move to ~/Desktop though, and this 
> would need to be handled with that migration. 

Speaking of that by the way, I am currently testing the ~/Desktop on my
desktop machine. It works reasonably well for a default, since it is
accessible from the file selectors, and the name makes sense. I guess
the dir name should not be localized by the way, that would get hairy
very fast. MacOSX does not localize the name either, finnish OSX has
"~/Desktop" dir, not "~/Työpöytä" :-)

I think the ~/Desktop is not too bad, although I personally am so much
used to the ~/ as desktop that I dont think I will ever go back. I find
myself making symlinks of my folders to the desktop to find them, it is
too much trouble to repeatedly open the "Home" directory and browse
there whenever I need to open files (yes, I mostly drag and drop files
instead of using the fileselector, much easier to find stuff) Also, on
the desktop the folders are always on the places I remember so it is
fast to find them..

As an interesting note, most applications on OSX initially default to
saving *on the desktop*, like if you save stuff from Internet Explorer,
it goes to the desktop by default. So they are actually having a hybrid
between $HOME as desktop and ~/Desktop. They can do that since most osx
apps have the same file selector and use the same toolkit and APIs.

Tuomas

PS. This is offtopic, but since Havoc is reading this list as well: Hi,
would it be possible to make metacity support "metacity-message
show-desktop" or equivalent? I would want to make a panel button to
"show desktop" (the same as the Ctrl-Alt-D keybinding) - it would be
useful on the default panel setup as well I think since Windows has such
a thing as well. Or maybe the tasklist could have such a button?
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