[desktop-discuss] CDE removal ?

[Calum Benson]

On 10 Mar 2008, at 00:43, Calum Benson wrote:

>
>> A last observation. Who would care about a Documents folder in the
>> desktop? I really need a shortcut to my home folder, and I am forced
>> to open the Documents folder and cd .. to get home. All in all, I
>> think gnome targets only novice users, and tries to be a replacement
>> for Windows desktops. I hope they will improve soon.
>
> This is a hangover from the early versions of JDS (not GNOME), which
> did explicitly target Windows switchers.  One of the requirements from
> Sun marketing was to minimise retraining for those users, and since
> there's no Home folder on Windows, we hid it as best we could too.

Oh, and btw, you can easily reinstate the Home folder icon on your  
desktop by running gconf-editor, and checking the /apps/nautilus/ 
desktop/home_icon_visible box.  (I think that's the right path, I'm  
not at my Solaris box right now....)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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