Public Directories

[James Laver]

Perhaps a script can be included to make one, perhaps as a deb. I'm
(obviously) quite happy to write the script, perhaps someone can
volunteer to manage the deb. Naturally it would install .desktop files
to link to it.

On 15/06/06, Micah J. Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:09:56PM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:37:40 -0500
> > "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I think a 'common' folder that every user gets full r/w access would
> > > > be great idea
> > >
> > > So why can't people that want it create it?
> > >
> > > $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/public
> > > $ sudo chmod 1777 /usr/share/public
> > >
> > > Done.  Why does this need to come with the operating system's default install?
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > But really.... are you serious?
>
> Well, really. If that's so hard, surely one could use Nautilus to
> accomplish the same? (Not that I've tried, and at the moment I'm shelled
> out from Windows, so can't check it out). If not, I'd surely consider
> that a deficciency in Nautilus... And if the "sticky bit" is too
> difficult a concept, I'm sure the users that don't know about it don't
> care enough about it to need it (especially since, the same scenarios in
> which an "everybody" directory would be useful are likely to be the same
> ones that are populated exclusively by "friendlies")...
>
> Including it as a default install option seems somewhat silly. Not
> everyone is going to want one...
>
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