Re: Volume handling proposal

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Tuomas Kuosmanen writes: 

> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 03:07, David Adam Bordoley wrote: 
>
> Evolution directory is going to become ~/.evolution so it will be
> hidden.

Yeah but you still have the problem of various legacy folders like the old 
evo folder if people are using older versions. The whole reason for not 
using Home as the desktop was to avoid exposing users to various 
implementation detail folders that certain impolite applications dump into 
home. (I believe acrobat is guilty of this too). IT just seems overall 
better to me to avoid the potential problems. Home is a fairly unixy concept 
anyway. 

That said. I think a user visible mail folder on the desktop that had an evo 
style mail view and allowed you to interact with your mail like any other 
file (ie allowed you to delete mail items by dragging them to the nautilus 
trash can etc.) would be very cool. 

> Having desktop the default save location both encourages you to organize
> your files in a smart way, and also makes it easy to keep your files in
> order, since you can quickly sort stuff around. 
>
> Plus I tend to sort stuff by task into "piles" on different parts of the
> desktop, so I know one project is on top right corner and another is in
> the middle. It's a nice addition and makes it easy to later just create
> a folder for that stuff in my Work-dir and just drop the whole pile of
> stuff there. The desktop can really be a lot more than just a pretty
> wallpaper.. 

All I can say is amen!!! :) 

dave