[haiku] Re: Desktop folder disappears from /boot/home

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:20:32 +0200, Michael Lotz said:

> Yes, Tracker.NewFS had both, the Desktop folder shown and the "Parent 
> Folder"
> item in context menu navigation. Both of which I find reasonable and 
> useful.
> For people using single window browsing, hiding the Desktop is the 
> most
> visible. In that case it completely breaks single window browsing 
> when you
> open a folder on the Desktop, as you can't navigate "up" from there. 
> But also
> for spatial browsing it's useful at times to view the Desktop in list 
> mode
> because of the additional detail. If we can agree on that, I'd like 
> to apply
> both changes. Allow browsing the Desktop and adding "Parent Folder" 
> in the
> navigation.

FWIW, I am completelly against this. The most useless options for me in 
Tracker are the ones related to single window navigation (as I do not 
use them at all) and I am a big fan of the spatial desktop concept.

-Bruno

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