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

i remember that in some cases in BeOS i can see the Desktop from
tracker...maybe i used a mod of the original tracker?

2009/6/21 Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> > I have a problem that i remember also in BeOS, the Desktop folder
> > disappears
> > from /boot/home but he is watched by the terminal and i can cd into, the
> > desktop is well, but i can't cd into it using the tracker, yet i can cd
> > into
> > a directory contained in the desktop, this is a screenshot :
> >
> > http://f.imagehost.org/view/0350/desktoproblem
> >
> > Anywone know this problem?
>
> This is not a "problem" of your installation, but a design decision by the
> BeOS engineers. They decided that the user should not see the Desktop folder
> inside the home folder, it's hidden on purpose by Tracker. You already see
> the contents of the Desktop folder "as the desktop". This has a couple of
> problems, because when a couple of desktops are eventually merged from
> different volumes, you cannot tell which content is on which volume. This
> may lead to problems when making backups for example. Personally, I like the
> solution in Gnome, where the Desktop folder is shown as regular folder entry
> in file listings and you can CD into it (like in Haiku's file panels), but
> also show it as a regular folder window, even if you see the contents twice
> then.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>

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