Filesystem - hiding system folders?

[Brian Burger]

On 3/28/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
>
>
> I seriously doubt you can GET 10 minutes of reading technical stuff from
> most users. However a 10 minute cartoonish animated walk-through
> presented by a cute animated mascotte figure named Ubunny: Maybe.


Ahhhh! No! Clippy-the-animated-irritation does *not* need any
open-source collegues!
;)

Tristan wrote:
> > /usr/share/doc/
> > /usr/share/
> > /opt/somethirdpartyprogram/examples
> > IMHO it's best not to second guess your users intentions
>
> Of course.. though Jason was not suggesting to completely disable access
> to those, merely not to showing them in a nautilus file browser run by
> an ordinary user account.
>

Except that what Tristan was getting at is that there are a number of things
in root's filesystem that have nothing to do with administration and should
be accessible to non-admin users.

Stuff like Scribus's template files, OpenClipart libraries, the GIMP manual
& userguides, abs-guide and lots of other useful stuff gets installed into
rootspace because it has to go somewhere, and it needs to be available.

Brian
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