On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:

>  Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> What genius decided that the users home directory should also BE the
> [gnome] Desktop?  Doing so means that every file and directory in a users
> home directory appears on the Desktop.  One does not notice it on finishing
> the install because there are no visible files there.  Makes me wonder how
> many people we did installs for at the installfest are now being bothered by
> this weird setup.
>
> I do not know how widespread this is but I found a number of discussions
> about it on the web.  A scratch install of ubuntu 9.04 seems to do this
> though an upgrade does not.  I THINK the change is related to the new
> install having a ~/.config/ that looks like:
>
> # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
>> # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
>> # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
>> # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
>> # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
>> # absolute path. No other format is supported.
>> #
>> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
>
> instead of
>
>> ---<snip>---
>> #
>> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
>> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
>> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
>> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
>> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
>> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
>> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
>> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
>
>
> I don't know how or why that happened, but I also noted the absence of
> .bashrc and .profile which I thought were supposed to be made (copied from
> /etc) by default for every user?  This almost makes me wonder if the change
> was intentional or possibly poorly vetted.
>
> Anyone have any inside info about this?
>
> I've never seen that...my Gnome desktops has always been under
> $HOME/Desktop.
>
> Yes, me too and on other distributions.  Hence my question.

-- 
Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry