desktop_is_home_dir

[Nathan Howell]

On Tue, 2004-21-09 at 04:24 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> First off, that would mean that instead of having 'special' icons on
> your desktop all the time, you'd have very important real folders on
> your desktop all the time that you couldn't get rid of.

Right, but you'd have *only* real files and folders on your desktop all
the time.

> So, we wouldn't have a clean desktop anymore at all.

Right, you'd have a *useful* desktop. ;-) By emptying the desktop by
default, you've pretty much declared its uselessness. I don't see a
better way to make it useful again than making it == $HOME.

> Second, there have been numerous discussions about this on nautilus-
> list, which go through all the problems with it (that are basically too
> long-winded to explain here).

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't read those before. (Good
summary/links for those interested here:
http://www.dsl.uow.edu.au/~harvey/nautilus.shtml )
I think all the arguments for and against this option have been had
before, so I'm not interested in continuing this discussion. I just
wanted to raise the point, as I think it's a great UI simplification.

Nathan