On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Randy Kramer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonathan (and all),
>
> I'm not a "developer" (if that's the right word) of the FHS, but an interested
> user. I'm not (at least initially) going to comment on the overall thrust of
> your proposal, but instead, I would like to say:
>
> If a change of this magnitude is contemplated, then please consider my pet
> peeve about the Linux filesystem hierarchy--that is the /home directory and
> the conglomeration of all user data within that directory, via the kludge of
> making some files hidden.
> ....
No doubt many people have that peeve. But nothing substantial seems to
eve get done about it. For a long time I help out hope that XDG base
directory standard would be the ultimate solution to this, but uptake
has been hardly perceptible.
So I have come up with my won solution, though it does not fully
address all three/four of your divisions, it does address the most
significant. I have move all of MY files to
`/home/{username}/Desktop`. On most systems Desktop is well recognized
and and easy to navigate to. So now I have things like
`Desktop/Music`, `Desktop/Photos`, etc. This is working very well for
me, and generally I no longer have to navigate a bunch of dot files to
find my files. I've also been thinking about renaming the `Desktop`
directory to just `Desk` or `desk` (an if I I can figure out how to
inform Gnome of this fact, I will try that). Perhaps then, this alone
is a small enough addition to FHS that it can get some momentum
--supporting `home/{user}/desk` seems innocuous enough.
~trans
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