On 10 Mar 2008, at 00:43, Calum Benson wrote: > >> A last observation. Who would care about a Documents folder in the >> desktop? I really need a shortcut to my home folder, and I am forced >> to open the Documents folder and cd .. to get home. All in all, I >> think gnome targets only novice users, and tries to be a replacement >> for Windows desktops. I hope they will improve soon. > > This is a hangover from the early versions of JDS (not GNOME), which > did explicitly target Windows switchers. One of the requirements from > Sun marketing was to minimise retraining for those users, and since > there's no Home folder on Windows, we hid it as best we could too.
Oh, and btw, you can easily reinstate the Home folder icon on your desktop by running gconf-editor, and checking the /apps/nautilus/ desktop/home_icon_visible box. (I think that's the right path, I'm not at my Solaris box right now....) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
