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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: More usable desktop setup
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-01-07 10:24:52
Message-ID: 200401071124.52514.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:25, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> A while ago, I tried to describe a possible improvement in a user's $HOME
> directory organization.  I have now moved to a larger Hard Disk and
> implemented my idea and after using if for a while, I think that I can
> objectively say that it does work better.
>
> I created a subdirectory of $HOME which I am currently calling: "USR-Home"
> because that is the name of the environment variable I created for it:
> USR_HOME.  This name could be something else and that might be better
>
> So, the setup is that: "USR-HOME" is a child of the $HOME directory.  And
> this directory is set as the "Documents path" and the Home URL in the KFM
> profile of Konqueror.  I added an icon for this directory on the DeskTop
> and used the: "gohome" icon.  This is in addition to the existing icon for
> the $HOME directory.  I changed the item in the K-Menu to this directory:
> "$HOME/USR-Home/", and added it to the: "Navigation Panel" in Konqueror (I
> changed the icons so that "gohome" is for $HOME/USR_Home/" and
> "folder_home" is for $HOME).  I hand edited the 'desktop file for the
> sidebar so that the "Name" is "USR-Home".
>
> I moved the Desktop directory (renamed DeskTop) to the "$HOME/USR-Home/"
> directory.
>
> In the "$HOME/USR_Home/" directory, I have a "Documents" child directory as
> well as additional directories to keep my various files sorted as I want
> them.
>
> Then I set the: "Work path" for all applications to: $USR_HOME or a
> subdirectory of it.
>
> This could be improved somewhat if the default: "Work path" for all
> applications was $USR_HOME rather than $HOME.  It is also possible that the
> default: "Work path" would be: $USR_HOME/<Menu Type>.  So that if an
> application's Menu Type was: "Graphics" then the default: "Work path" for
> that application would be: $HOME/USR-Home/Graphics.  The Type:
> "Applications" should probably translate to "Documents".  There should be
> yet another configuration file to configure this, but most users would
> probably either use the defaults or change them for individual applications
> with the Menu Editor.
>
> I suppose that somebody is going to ask what if the application had more
> than one Menu Type.  Might I first say that I don't like that -- I don't
> like the menu clogged with multiple menu entires for the same application. 
> But, it should be obvious that if there were a list that the first one
> would be used.
>
> This seems like the obvious solution to all that clutter in the $HOME
> directory.  I have kept my $HOME/USR-Home directory clean -- I don't keep
> files in it.  It only has subdirectories where I keep the files.

Okay, we had such discussions in the past, so I will not start a flame war 
again.

So I will just note that this is matter for http://freedesktop.org as it has 
little sence to be implemented in KDE only.

>
> --
> JRT

Have a nice day!

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