home directory shortcut

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:48 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> I tried dragging "Home Folder" from the Places menu in the panel and
>> it looked as if it were going to make a copy of my home folder - at
>> which point I canceled.  I don't have enough disk space to try that ;)
>
> It definitely creates a desktop shortcut to that folder; it does NOT
> copy the folder.
>
> You can test this by crating a small folder in your home directory,
> putting a few files in it, bookmarking the folder (so it appears in
> Places) then dragging the Places entry onto your desktop. Now go see if
> you have a copy of the folder.

Hmm - I must have borked something in gconf somewhere because it
definitely makes a copy for me!  I doubt that I'd ever use that
functionality though - so no loss :)  Just curious after following the
thread...

Chris