Re: volumes mark 2

[Jens Ansorg <liste ja-web de>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> Yeah. I'm having second thoughts about desktop-as-home.
>
> Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
>  
that's good :)

I followed the discussion for a few days now and finally I decided to 
check this spatial thingy out:

First thing: I set my Desktop = $Home, did an 'ls > .hidden' and removed 
just some entries of that file.
Now I do have a clean Desktop and with just one click (doubleclick) I 
can get to my Documents, Develop and Temp folder (all directly under $HOME)

And yes, I like it that way - especially since many apps default to 
$HOME as location for opening/saving it's easy to get to my documents. 
Having everything in a dedicated $HOME/Desktop folder would make it more 
complicated (more clicks)

So I vote for Desktop = $HOME


Next I set all Nautilus prefs to get as close as possible to the spatial 
behavior. (using Nautilus from Gnome-2.4) . Show Icon view per default, 
only the menu bar and statusbar in windows, open folders/objects in new 
windows - and I'm impressed! It works already very well for me.  I 
cannot realy explan but it works or feels much better than the Win2k 
Desktop I have to deal with at work.



Looking forward to try the nautilus-spatial-playground branch - if It 
ever becomes available as a gentoo build <sigh/>

Jens