Re: wineshelllink: fall back to $HOME if $HOME/Desktop does not exist
Lei Zhang wrote:
Hi,
As reported in bug 7373, some people do not have a Desktop directory in their home directory. Wineshelllink should fall back to putting .desktop files in the home directory if the Desktop directory does not exist. Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
Jeff
On 4/20/07, Jeff L <lats(a)yless4u.com.au> wrote:
Lei Zhang wrote:
Hi,
As reported in bug 7373, some people do not have a Desktop directory in their home directory. Wineshelllink should fall back to putting .desktop files in the home directory if the Desktop directory does not exist. Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
I sure wouldn't want some app creating a Desktop directory in my home folder if it didn't exist before. -- James Hawkins
James Hawkins wrote:
Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
I sure wouldn't want some app creating a Desktop directory in my home folder if it didn't exist before. I don't know which is better, a lot of files appearing in my home or a new directory. Lots of apps create directories to organise files and we take it on the chin.
Jeff Latimer
On 4/20/07, Jeff L <lats(a)yless4u.com.au> wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
I sure wouldn't want some app creating a Desktop directory in my home folder if it didn't exist before. I don't know which is better, a lot of files appearing in my home or a new directory. Lots of apps create directories to organise files and we take it on the chin.
The directories you're referring to are usually hidden directories. -- James Hawkins
James Hawkins wrote:
On 4/20/07, Jeff L <lats(a)yless4u.com.au> wrote:
James Hawkins wrote:
Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
I sure wouldn't want some app creating a Desktop directory in my home folder if it didn't exist before. I don't know which is better, a lot of files appearing in my home or a new directory. Lots of apps create directories to organise files and we take it on the chin. The directories you're referring to are usually hidden directories. The point may be moot. Though logically, if the directory is usually hidden then wine controls how it looks and the user does not normally care. In the case of missing directories it seems reasonable to create them for consistency and conformity. If the user chooses to change, fine. If the link or the directory is missing then the standard fix up would be to recreate them.
Jeff Latimer
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 12:43:57PM +1000, Jeff L wrote:
James Hawkins wrote: I don't know which is better, a lot of files appearing in my home or a new directory. Lots of apps create directories to organise files and we take it on the chin.
I don't like either, so after a wineprefixcreate I use: find windows/profiles/$USER/ -type l -print -exec "rm" '{}' ';' -exec mkdir '{}' ';' Jan
Jeff L wrote:
Lei Zhang wrote:
Hi,
As reported in bug 7373, some people do not have a Desktop directory in their home directory. Wineshelllink should fall back to putting .desktop files in the home directory if the Desktop directory does not exist. Is there a reason why we should not just create a Desktop directory? Seems neater than cluttering up the home.
Because this would probably be changed again some time in the near future. There isn't anything in FreeDesktop standards about this. But some discussions going on about using localized version of this dir. So instead of stomping on some distros that show users their whole home dir, we play along and just dump more stuff there :) Vitaliy.
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