Just for the records I also use my Home as my Desktop. Samuel Abels wrote:
>On Mi, 2005-07-27 at 18:04 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > >>A minor irritation of mine. gnome-terminal opens in the home >>directory, other apps open in $HOME/Desktop. Then i found this >>http://gnome-hacks.jodrell.net/hacks.html?id=2 and it solved my >>problem. No more two places that are basically the same! >> >> > >This has been discussed excessively a few times here. Though I happen to >agree with you (and use Desktop = Home happily since almost a year), >many others did not. Best search the archives, IIRC somebody posted a >summary of the benefits and drawbacks of each model. > >There is also a proposal of a model in which an environment variable can >be set accordingly, to make it possible for any script (even those that >are not aware of gconf) to determine the correct location of $HOME and >the desktop. > >-Samuel >_______________________________________________ >Usability mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
