[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) writes: > My question to the group is: what is wrong with a directory in each > user's home directory called "Desktop"? I'd love to see this > approach.
The reason I dislike this is that it gives you two "separate" hierarchies to manage - your home folder and your magic desktop folder. When I was running Windows, this always bothered me and I never put anything else than links on the desktop. Which made it an incomplete duplicate of the start menu, i.e. essentially useless. :-) It just seems so natural having the desktop as the home. I also suspect newcomers will understand the desktop as home dir idea better. What you see is what you have. [...] > I see a lot of problems with the "use your home directory as your > desktop" approach, like "I want to see dot files, even in the desktop > folder". If we use our home directory as our desktop then we're > screwed because there are just to many dot files there. However, this can be fixed. It's just a question of Nautilus being more sensible/flexible. -- Ole Laursen http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/
