From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2009-08-16 11:44:29
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:16:19 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ral...@al...> said: > PS: > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >> e puts those .desktop files there for its filemanager. they are > >> shortcuts/links > >> to devices and/or bits of the filesystem. yes - nautilus will show > >> them and > >> display them oddly. to be honest, this doesn't bother us, because you > >> are > >> expected to be using e, not nautilus. :) > > I'm not unexperienced and even if it was easy to solve, I wonder that > e17 linked to partitions that are not mounted by fstab ;). For some > reason I edited my fstab the way it is ;). oh u mean the .desktop files in Desktop - which ones specifically? there's more than one way to mount a filesystem than by fstab. :) > The default behaviour of e17 doesn't fit to the needs of unexperienced > and in addition not to the needs of experienced users. seems to fit the needs of many - including me. it works out of the box on all my machines - all of which run ubuntu btw. i can deal with removable media (cd's, dvd's, usb storage, mmcblk etc.), deal with my files, deal with my apps. it meets the needs of this experienced user and developer - and i know it meets the needs of others. i know of no one except you that just changed desktops regularly - they use one for weeks or months or years on end. you'd be an exception, not a rule. :) it may not meet your needs - sure, but developers scratch their own itches first, then they cater to the majority of users. minorities normally send patches to support themselves :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... |