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Bug 62116 - Remove "Home" icon when desktop is $HOME
Remove "Home" icon when desktop is $HOME
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: 1.1.x
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-11 02:10 UTC by Braden
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Braden 2001-10-11 02:10:58 UTC 
When using the user's home directory for the desktop, it doesn't make sense
to include the "Home" icon as well.
Comment 1 John Fleck 2001-10-19 13:39:42 UTC 
Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me.
Comment 2 Chris Heywood 2001-11-15 01:12:21 UTC 
Associated with this, the home directory link is created every time at
the moment if there isn't a link called "username's home".  Would it
be possible to change this so the link is only created if there are no
links to ~ on the desktop (or something similar?).

This would allow the home link to have other names.
Comment 3 John Fleck 2002-01-26 04:16:04 UTC 
Adding GNOME2 keyword.
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2002-02-25 18:37:31 UTC 
This is incredibly irritating; I'm surprised it hasn't been reported more.
Comment 5 Håvard Wigtil 2002-03-17 19:43:43 UTC 
I'm looking at this now. But is the GNOME2 keyword really apropriate here?
Comment 6 Luis Villa 2002-03-18 17:06:39 UTC 
Borderline. Definitely not a GNOME2 blocker bug, really, but
definitely a GNOME2 issue (which was the original criteria, two or
three iterations ago.) Up to you, havardw, if you want to leave it or not.
Comment 7 dwatson 2002-04-02 15:39:40 UTC 
I have commited a patch to a) stop creating the home directory link
when desktop=home and b) allow the user to delete any existing home
directory link when desktop=home.  This bug should be closed (unless
we are maintaining the 1.0.x branch?).