Re: ~/Desktop [Was: remove grody code]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes: 
> How likely is the shift to ~/Desktop for 2.2? 

Not gonna happen. I'd think this basic script setup is independent of
that issue though.

> I *think* this would be seen a
> feature for the purposes of the Oct 31 freeze, given the issues with
> migrating from ~/.gnome-desktop, etc.

Very much so.

> Random pseudo(code|thoughts)...
> 
>   # lots of people do this, shouldn't stop migration if the link exists
>   if ~/Desktop is a symlink to ~/.gnome-desktop
>     rm ~/Desktop
> 
>   if ~/Desktop exists
>     if ~/.gnome-desktop exists
>       # this is almost certainly very, very stupid
>       mv ~/.gnome-desktop/* ~/Desktop/
>   else
>     mv ~/.gnome-desktop ~/Desktop
> 

I don't really remember what I had in desktop-directory-utils, so I'm
not sure how this is different. ;-) But looks reasonable.

Havoc