Re: User directories integration - request for help

[Patrice Dumas <pertusus free fr>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:13:16AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:40:39AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > Many dirs will be created at first login anyway (Desktop, Templates,
> > > maybe Public), and others will be created as you go. Seems very similar
> > 
> > Why should those dirs be created?
> 
> To make life feel better for new users, to give them default locations for
> things like downloads that are best kept seperated. And for a new user who
> doesn't like them coming to an otherwise empty desktop it is trivial to
> remove them if they don't like it, or rename them.
> 
> Doing it to an existing user is I guess more controversial.

But determining new versus existing users is not easy, because there 
isn't one way to login.

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Pat