Making example-content more visible

[Lukas Sabota]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:55 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> Wouter Stomp wrote:
> > On 2/21/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> Wouter Stomp wrote:
> >>> How about instead of deploying a link, just copying it to the users
> >>> home directory? Have some directories like documents, photos, music in
> >>> the users home folder each with two or three example files.
> >> That is how Windows does it, but the problem is duplication of data.
> >> With sound, video and presentations with several images this can get
> >> quite large. We might hit 10 meg for a single collection. You then
> >> duplicate that for each user, which starts taking space.
> >>
> > 
> > With the standard installation being around 2000 megabytes, 10mb more
> > per user probably shouldn't be a problem. Adding links would be more
> > confusing to most users who don't know anything about links. Only a
> > large number of users on one computer could pose a problem and I was
> > wondering if there are actually people with more than 10 or so users
> > on one computer?
> 
> Please don't mess with my 'home'. I deleted the MS My Documents, My 
> Pictures, My Videos, and other folders for years and 'bill' just kept 
> making them come back. every time i deleted them they came back. Putting 
> these example files on a live CD sounds like a great idea for helping 
> people test out functionality, but putting them in my home be it new or 
> old (but especially old) will just clutter things up. The reason i 
> suggest against using such a setup is because it sanctifies those 
> directories in a users home. Before long other packages will want to put 
> some example files in there to show their functionality and we will end 
> up with directories that never die. Windows home folders are a perfect 
> example of losing control of your space. -mf
> 
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