Re: User/administrative testing: $DESKTOP

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:32:48PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Maciej Stachowiak">
> 
> > This doesn't sound like a usability improvement, since it makes it less
> > obvious that files in this directory will be published on the web. On most
> > systems, Public just means public to other users on the system, who can
> > get at your home directory. I don't think the name "public_html" is so
> > great, but "Public" is not very good either.
> 
> Hrm, it's only stuff that goes on the Intranet. Perhaps "Shared" would be
> more to your liking? ;-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
>              Toothpaste is the most important meal of the day.              

For probably two years now I've had:

  ~/Public/
  ~/Public/ftp/
  ~/Public/www/

With the httpd's ~/public_html thing pointing to ~/Public/www/ and something
similar for ftpd (though, I don't recall what and must've removed it)
pointing to ~/Public/ftp/ .

This was just for my wee laptop, and I'm the only user. For general
consumption, more descriptive names would probably be better; though,
people do see http://www.... in all sorts of advertisements.

Cheers,
Greg Merchan