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.
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