[Bug 36566] let's add a 'people' emblem to /home.

Eric Feliksik milouny at gmx.net
Sat Mar 25 11:46:25 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36566

Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
Short question: how about giving /home/ a gnome 'people' emblem by
default?

Motivation:
Fon non-techies, the *nix filesystem is very confusing. They should only be interested in their home-folder, and therefor we abstract the filesystem a bit (gnome-vfs, left-panel of nautilus) and make open-dialogs start in home, etc. 
However, sometimes you *do* end up in the root dir. This can be confusing. Just a subtle hint ("Hey, look here!"), would be nice. After a while people might even recognize that their documents are in in /home/name :)

BTW: due to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/33822 this might not reach it's full potential. 
Just a subtlety.




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