(Just catching up on this conversation again after my extended Easter break...)
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:20 -0700, Frank Ludolph wrote: > The deeper it is hidden in the hierarchy, the harder it is to locate. > Putting it in ~Desktop/ means that it will appear on the desktop, > which may not be good if we want to work toward an icon-free desktop > as I suggested earlier. Putting it in ~Documents seems slightly > strange as some of the things I download are not docs so it isn't > intuitive to me that I should look there to find Downloads. Desktop, > Downloads, and Docs feel to be of equivalent level to me, system > created, user specific containers. FWIW, GNOME 2.22 (which will be in the Indiana 1.0 release) does provide a number of such folders by default, courtesy of the xdg-user-dirs spec: <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs>. It's only minimally-configurable at present, so for this release the most important decision is probably whether we want all such folders (Download, Templates, Public, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos) or none of them-- we can't trivially turn them on or off individually yet AFAIK. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
