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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Manuel Amador <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2002-12-13 23:56:17
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> Am I missing something here?  Windows *does* default to "c:\documents and 
> settings\bob\My documents" for saving documents. The "My Documents" folder on 
> the desktop is just a live 'link' to an individual users Documents folder 
> which is buried in the file hierarchy unless it is just a single user machine 
> or is set for all users to share the same doc folder.
> 
> In other words it is much the same as Linux with a 'Documents' Link on the 
> desktop.
This is only because Windows doesn't have per-user home directories (at
most there is this thing called Profiles, buried deep in C:\Windows, an
only modernly in C:\Documents and settings), and hence needs this
abstraction to make it appear so.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> andrew
>  
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