deleting ~/Desktop directory FIXED!

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 17:27 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 05:08 PM, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> > On 7 Jun 2012, at 21:50, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>
> >> Damn! The average Ubuntu #$%^&@ user hasn't a chance without this
> >> crowd of neuromancers assisting. Ric
> >>
> >
> > Still better than the windows "Contact your system administrator"
> > Hello Me!
> > Oh hi me, how can I help?
> > I need to contact myself about this error...
> 
> I'm getting old. There used to be a time you could brass-knuckles your 
> way around your own setup. You could hamfist it and smash it to 
> smithereens. Your choice. Now, deleting a directory has to pass muster 
> from some config file I had never heard of before. I do wonder if the 
> "old" way that had far less going on was better, and thus more secure by 
> virtue of fewer things happening that the user wasn't in control of?

The number of people who want to intentionally delete their Desktop
directory are a minute percentage of those who accidentally do so
(actually you're the only person I've ever heard of wanting to do it).

>From a support perspective it makes far more sense to cater to the
majority.

However it would be nice to get a dialog or something "are you sure you
want to delete your Desktop folder".  Perhaps it's worth filing an
enhancement request in Launchpad against (I imagine) Nautilus.

I'm not saying that all the new complexity is a net gain: there's a
serious price to be paid and it seems that the pace is only increasing.
But I'm not sure this particular issue is a great example.