Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 20:24, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 13:24, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > * KDE also uses ~/Desktop, and they put some special files in there. We
> > need to examine how these interact with Nautilus and how we can avoid
> > confusing the user with these files.
> 
> Mac OS X also uses ~/Desktop, which could be an issue for anybody in an
> environment where /home is an NFS mount.  I know there's not a whole lot
> we can do to inter-operate, as Apple probably isn't interested.  But it
> would be nice to do something intelligent with any weird Apple stuff in
> ~/Desktop, even if it's just intelligently ignoring it.

Interesting point.

On my iMac, there's nothing weird in ~/Desktop apart from some dotfiles
(which are hidden anyway). Does OS X write non-hidden weird stuff in
there?

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Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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