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[James Richard Tyrer]

Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> * 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".
>>> 
> Bye,
>>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.

Hi Kenneth, how are things at SuSE?

There do seem to be a lot of people that dislike change. :-)

History suggests that users do not respond well to the tree file 
structure and choose to throw everything in one file.  ARGH!

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

IAC, I was not suggesting that we change the default for 'Documents 
path' only that things respond correctly if a user chose to change it, 
rather than (incorrectly) presuming that ALL users would want to use the 
default and hard coding stuff to only work with the default.

-- 
JRT