From kde-core-devel  Fri May 19 16:18:44 2006
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:18:44 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Concluding the discussion about splitting kdebase
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On Thursday 18 May 2006 15:31, S=C3=A9bastien Lao=C3=BBt wrote:
> But today I saved a mail attachment from KMail to the desktop, because I
> needed it temporarily.
> Right click -> "Save as..." -> "Desktop" shortcut

this is something i've been see-sawing back and forth on for some time. i'm=
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really tempted to say that this is a very broken way of working that should=
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be actively discouraged.

why do people do this? so they can quickly get to that file at a later time=
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but not -too- much later probably otherwise you end up with 100s of icons o=
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your desktop that are random files.

personally what i'd much rather provide is a way to tag files in the=20
filesystem as "important" in some way and allow the desktop (or other=20
applications) to list those files so tagged. this alleviates the rather=20
abstract restrictions that come with having one folder being what is=20
literally shown on the desktop.

i really do have faith that if we drop what is a poor hack-of-a-solution we=
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come up with clever means to truly address the real use cases. =3D)

> Or will it be Windows-like, where it is visually made the root of the user
> filesystem, with "Personnal Folder" (a.k.a. Home) and other devices inside
> the desktop, and the rest of the filesystem hidden from users?

oh god no. windows' desktop absolutely offends my sensibilities while ours=
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simply annoys me ;)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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