Benjamin Rich wrote:
But we are still left with this pointless separation. Why not have one
place only for applications, and one place for a user's files?
We had this discussion in a KDE mailing list a few years ago and I
remember it was quite heated. There was a strong resistance to making the
Benjamin Rich wrote:
We ended up concluding that $HOME and Desktop are two different
things.
But why should they be?
Home is where everything I have is.
Desktop is where stuff I am working on is.
This is the simple analogy to the physical objects.
Besides, as I said, we have had this
Benjamin Rich schrieb:
What is the point of saving files to the desktop so they're easily
accessible; but then having to move them into the home directory? 2x
organisation for the user, wasting time they could be spending
actually using their files.
Well, if I am looking onto my desk at home
[Johnathan: This is a great example that highlights why I think we
should be defining interfaces for integration tasks (Like Portland does)
instead of writing a specification that is more proscribing how a
desktop environment should implement certain functionality (e.g. where
files should be
