On 4/27/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > For users it appears to be friendlier (compared to have _all_ the files > > in one flat directory where you have to search for your files via $ ls > > -l | fgrep "myusername" # or worse). > > > But /why/ would I ever be searching for files there? I have /never/ > had a reason to do a "ls -l $TMPDIR" in all my 20 years of using Unix, > USG, Linux and Solaris.
Did you use any desktop application recently? Try: Open Konqueror, go to www.sun.com, select menu item Save As... You get a file dialog and the sidebar has predefined locations, including Desktop (file:///home/yamis/Desktop/), Documents file:///home/yamis/Documents/), Home Folder (file:///home/yamis/), Temporary Folder (file:///tmp/yamis/), Storage Media (media:/), Network Folder (remote:/) Temporary Folder (file:///tmp/yamis/) is set to the value of TMPDIR by default Josh
