Benjamin Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -does not allow app launchers on the desktop I have to disagree with you here. I think there should be no distinction at all between an App Launcher and /any other file/ as far as panels/desktops are concerned .Especially if the Desktop becomes simply the way that filesin $HOME are presented - it should not care any about the type of file, except when determining how to open it and what icon to give it. What happens if the user wants to put a particular file in their home dir? With your proposal, if it is an app launcher it should either fail to put it there (which would be annoying and confusing), and/or it should not be displayed along with all the other files (which would also be annoying/confusing). Unless you mean that installers shouldn't put things on the Desktop, which I think is a good idea, but one that belongs somewhere with enough scope to say 'Installers should not install files out-of-prefix unless specifically instructed otherwise'. Essentially, this combined with things like $XDG_CONFIG_HOME should be enough to prevent files showing up /anywhere/ in the user's homedir unless they were put there - which is far more useful than what a Desktop spec could achieve. </rambling>
I do agree with the rest, though. To me, this would seem to just clarify the existing semantics of the "home directory" in such a way as to apply directly to a GUI environment, which is a good thing. -- Lennon Victor Cook "He who receives an idea from me receives without lessening, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening" - Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
