Oh, please no! I am not interested in seeing the whole contents of my home directory on my desktop. Seeing your home directory as your desktop is only good if you have 6-10 things in your home directory...more than that, and you have a UI problem.
Marc. On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:11, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > I suggest to use the following as default in future releases: > > /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir = true > > The rationale is that the home directory seems like a very logical place > where you drop your Documents, Downloads, etc... and you see your home > and all you can reach from there. > > Currently, ~/.gnome-desktop is used. That has some problems, specially > when the user starts discovering the command line: > <<this says I'm on my home, but I don't see my Documents, my Downloads, > etc... where the hell is my stuff?>>
