[kde-quality] Re: Join the Developers

[James Richard Tyrer]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:11:14PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I missed the original discussion (or it happened elsewhere, probably).
> Can you give a pointer to where you listed your rationale for NOT using
> $HOME?  (A ML archive URL would be fine.)

Much of it occurred on:

http://dot.kde.org/1120287053/

There are also postings to kde-core-devel & kde-usability-devel

To sum up my point.  We have a link in "Konqueror Introduction" with the 
description: "Your personal files".  This link is hard coded to point to 
$HOME.  I think that it should point to the location where you keep your 
personal files as determined by how you set [in the Control Center]:

	System Administration -> Paths: 'Documents path'

[I see this as almost a tautology.]

Otherwise, users are forced to use $HOME for their personal documents, 
or this feature is useless for them.

On Windows it is similar to what I suggest:

	C :\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\My Documents

But, this is only a suggestion.  It should be configurable so that users 
are free to set it 'any way they want'(tm).

There is also a parallel situation in "system:/" and the rational is the 
same for that.  It was proposed that we have a IO-Slave to find HOME 
folders for users in the same group.  This idea presumes that users 
would be storing their "personal files" in $HOME rather than looking for 
the directories specified by the 'Documents path' which should be where 
the users are actually storing their personal files.

I also made a general point that it is not good design to presume that 
everyone will use the defaults.

-- 
JRT