Re: SV: [Nautilus-list] Desktop folder

[David Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Can I just go on the record saying i categorically hate the idea of
making the home directory the desktop directory default. Especially for
multi-user environments where the home directory is the only directory
users have access to save to, this would be extremely annoying. I like
having a clean desktop with minimal icons. However when i'm surfing the
web and download something, it's nice to be able to save to the desktop
so i can keep track of it and then move or whatever the file/program i 
downloaded.

keeping the desktop directory hidden is a problem. Yes savvy users will
know that in that in gtk fileselector you can show hidden files by
typing . but hopefully gnome will be used by non-savvy, computer
illiterate users who just want an easy to used desktop. If these users
are ex-windows users( aka me 7 months ago) in particular, they are going
to want to be able to easily save to the desktop.

dave

ps. if im not mistaken from my initial newbie days, kde doesn't hide the
desktop dir.

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:57, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:22, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
>     The easiest way to access the desktop is to have the $HOME as desktop.
>     And for new uses I think this would be the default option since this
>     make the desktop much more useful. OK it's not a good idea to just turn
>     it on since a lot of peoples dektops will be quite useless since they
>     contain to many files... 
> 
> Nah, they'll just finally get around to clean it. Like I did. I had
> *never* seen such a cluttered desktop in my life when I first made
> desktop be $HOME. But it took a day or so to clean it (nautilus works
> great for stuff like that)
> 
> 
> 
>     So I don't know how to solve this, but I realy think that having $HOME
>     as desktop should be the best way from a new user point of view. 
>     
>     Did anyone do any user testing of this?
> 
> If anyone did, I would be interested in hearing about it. I use my
> homedir as the desktop, and it works great here. The only thing that is
> annoying are a few non-hidden dirs that I dont need to be visible, like
> bin/, evolution/, etc.
> 
> But a smart user can hide those under the panel :-) (move the panel
> away, put the folders at the very edge of the screen and move the panel
> back)
> 
> Tuomas
> 
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