On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 11:17 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I don't really think opening any specific app being it a terminal or > xchat or a web browser or email or whatever... is inherently a > "desktop" operation. If the desktop is suppose have an open terminal > item in its context menu.. The desktop is actually a means of interfacing the computer. The same way I usually type nautilus /some/path, sometimes, I also like to be able to quickly call up a terminal (another means of interfacing the computer) and which is the quicker (Fitt's law) way to do it than the 5th main pointer coordinate (the current pointer coordinate)? > then my web browser could also have an The web browser is a means of interacting with the web. Some web browsers have support for file:// but's merely an accidental support. > Then use the menus or set the keyboard binding to launch the terminal. > There's no reason that "powerful" commands need to be accessible via > the desktop context menu... by default. There's a huge reason to do this, along with NOT USING ~/Desktop but $HOME as the desktop. COHERENCE Like the shell shows you $HOME by default, so should the Desktop. It is so much simpler... Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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