Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I'm guessing that this is a desktop question as opposed to a devel > question, but I'm not on the -desktop list and here seems like the > next best place... > > What exactly is ~/Public being used for? A regular user may thing that > places files there makes them... public. AFAIK there's some code in GNOME which shares those files. KDE 4 doesn't support it. KDE 3 had some sort of user file sharing (disabled by default and had to be manually configured), but it never got ported to KDE 4. Kevin Kofler