[haiku] Re: Haiku installation

  • From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:34:02 +0200 CEST

"Bruno Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:00:22 +0200 CEST, Jonas Sundström said:
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> Yes. The spatial desktop concept (which Tracker was based
> around) requires that no 2 windows represent the same 
> folder. The desktop is always open as, well, your desktop. :)

Of course. You're right.

What I propose is in violation of spatiality, but it
would be limited to the desktop folder. Other folders
would still be spatial.

/Jonas.


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