Bug 48555 - RFE: share ~/Desktop with other environments
Summary: RFE: share ~/Desktop with other environments
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdesktop
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2002-10-01 18:55 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2009-01-02 20:19 UTC (History)
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Description Havoc Pennington 2002-10-01 18:55:11 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

There should be one standard user-visible concept of "the desktop" as a file location.
Then applications such as Mozilla and OpenOffice, among others, can begin to use 
this standard location. Right now we have ~/.gnome-desktop, ~/Desktop, and probably some others.

This thread discusses the issue a bit:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2002-June/msg00110.html

Here is the same feature request for GNOME:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94612

The main work here is to agree on what Home.desktop and Trash.desktop as populated by the desktop-directory-utils scripts should look like. Should be pretty straightforward.
Comment 1 david bordoley 2002-10-23 05:27:25 UTC 
just for the sake of mentioning it, there is a split in the gnome camp on this
issue as many of us would prefer that $home be the desktop.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2004-04-26 19:52:43 UTC 
Closing as GNOME switched to ~/Desktop.
Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:19:54 UTC 
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.