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[Kenneth Wimer]

* James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> [Jul 06. 2005 23:11]:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:48, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> >>Apparently, I wasted considerable time trying to discuss the $HOME vs.
> >>"My Files" issue.  It was informative; I found out a lot about lame
> >>excuses and rationalizations -- about how reactionary some KDE people are.
> > 
> > 
> > See it this way: there was a discussion, 
> 
> I said _trying_ to discuss.  I don't think that I succeeded.  I didn't 
> see a discussion.  What I saw was a lot of rationalizations and what is 
> technically called "group think".
> 
> Did anyone actually offer any reason that directing completely new users 
> to the $HOME directory as the place to store their documents was a good 
> idea.
> 
> Did anyone actually offer anything to support the contention that 
> completely new users understand what $HOME is?

Yes. SUSE used Documents as the default path for saving and opeing files
for a while and we received enough negative resonance from it that we
changed back. I do not mean to bring corporations into discussion but
rather the fact that our user base seriously disliked the idea.

A home dir with several subdirs is probably much more helpful. ie.
~/Documents, ~/Pictures, etc.

Bye,
-- 
Kenneth Wimer
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