[haiku] Re: Haiku installation

  • From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:00:22 +0200 CEST

"Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rene Gollent wrote:
 ...
> > Upon further investigation, Darkwyrm removed the
> > checkbox in r19934.
> 
> And here is a brief discussion that followed:
> 
> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/haiku-commits/2007-January/000414.html
> > 
> So, if I am not mistaken, here is what we currently have:
> 
> - Desktop folders are hidden

Is there any good reason to disallow showing the desktop
folder in a window apart from the reason of avoiding the
insanely huge window version of it? (Desktop uses the same
set of attributes as any folder, to store its properties,
making it show up huge.)

(I'm not sure the hiding of Desktop is helpful. It might
avoid having Desktop twice in BFilePanel's parent dropdown.
I wouldn't mind making having Disks as the top item instead
of Desktop. I think I've lost faith in Desktop as "GUI root",
inherited from classic MacOS. Alt-D and Alt-H would still work
just fine.)

> - "Integrate Non-Boot BeOS desktops" is off by default
> - "Integrate Non-Boot BeOS desktops" has been removed

I agree with both of these changes and see no good reason
to integrate Desktop folders with that of the current user.

In a multiuser setup, which Desktop folder on that other
volume would you integrate? (Even if two user accounts on
separate volumes may have the same ID and name, they could 
theoretically be accounts of two different persons.)

And why does a home folder get created for every BFS volume?
 
> It looks like this is not an alternative to accessing
> the desktop folder of non-boot volumes from Tracker anymore.

I agree that the Desktops of other volumes need to be 
accessible from Tracker like any folder, but I'd much 
rather have them be able to show like any folder, than
integrated into the current desktop.

There's just that issue with the attributes. What can
we do about that? Ignore the attributes of a desktop
folder and use a ~/config/settings/DefaultDesktopTemplate
when showing a Desktop-folder in a window?

/Jonas.


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