Home as Dektop in Gnome

[Matt Price]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:50:01AM -0500, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > Why a gconf key... 'ln -s ~/Desktop ~' would work too :)
> 
> Sure, but this is the "sloppy" way to do it. You still have to have
> this "Desktop" file for that to work. Seems an extraneous way to do
> it.
> 
> Besides, for new users, it still makes more sense just to have a clear
> (read: Not in gconf) option somewhere.

presumably you would also always have a misleading "Desktop" entry in
your nautilus browser, which, when clicked, would always reproduce the
view yu'd already be in.  THis seems unhelpful.

matt


> 
> Mike
> 

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