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

"Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I'd say it depends :-)
For one, I wouldn't like to open the Desktop folder and see the icons 
exactly like I see them on the actual desktop; either the icon view 
should be forbidden in this case, or Tracker should use two different 
mechanisms to store the icon positions - at the very least for the 
window settings, and icon size/list view mode.
In spatial mode, the Desktop is the root of the directory, so you 
cannot navigate up, anyway, or you would need to present different 
hierarchies to the user which I think is a bad idea.
Finally, we could make it an option that is always the same as the 
"single window browsing mode" - you will see the Desktop in that mode, 
but not in spatial mode. But, you could manually alter TrackerSettings 
to force Tracker to do that. But since we already break spatial mode 
with allowing the same folder to be opened on two different workspaces, 
maybe that's superfluous, and it should always be allowed (it's your 
choice then, anyway). Or make an option for that, and have the Desktop 
thing depend on it, too.
I would be all for this change, then.

Bye,
   Axel.

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