Description of problem: There is a slight usability problem in Gnome that really should be fixed in a polished distro. The problem is that the users Desktop folder doesn't conform to the spatial behaviour used everywhere else in Gnome. According to this model a folder should only be visible in on place, and act like if it was a real paper folder you can hold in your hand. This is not true for the Desktop folder, a user can open the Desktop folder as a nautilus window and see the same file twice (on the desktop and in the folder). This means that a user could be lead to believe that he have duplicate files, and perhaps even delet one (or as he later find) both of them to save space. There are two ways to solve this: 1) The Desktop folder could be hidden by using a .hidden file in the home directory. That would also solve another problem. Today the name of the Deskop folder as it appears in Nautilus is not internationalized. It is called Desktop regardless of locale. In every other place where the Desktop is referenced, it is done in an internationalized manner. This further increases the risk that the user will think he have duplicate files. E.g. how is a Swedish speaking person to know that what he have on his "Skrivbord" is the same thing as what he has in his Desktop folder in Nautilus. 2) Display the dekstop folder using the same type of icon as used for open folders and make sure that if the folder was double clikcked the real desktop shoud be active. In this case, active would mean hide all other windows. The name of the folder should be translated. Preferably the translation should be done by makeing use of .desktop files. This way ths name Desktop could still be used programatically. I would prefer the first solution where the folder was hidden. It worked well for MacOS-9 that also used the spatial paradigm. If done by by using a .hidden file in the users home directory it would be easy to get the old behavior back without any advanced programming. It would also leave KDE unaffected which is good as KDE uses a navigaional desktop model that have no problem displaying a folder multiple times.
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The problem remains in FC6.
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