[Thunar-dev] Bookmark behaviour

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>> Erik Harrison wrote:
>>> I've noticed that the Desktop bookmark that is present automatically
>>> in the Gtk file selector is missing from Thunar of late. I simply
>>> added it as a bookmark myself to Thunar, not thinking about it, but
>>> the next time I tried to open a file in Mousepad I noticed that I had
>>> two bookmarks for the Desktop - the built in one and the one I added
>>> in Thunar.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to restore the Desktop bookmark? If not, what was the
>>> rationale for it's removal?
>> It was never removed, because it was never there. ;-)
>>
>> I don't think it should be included in Thunar because the desktop is
>> already visible to the user, and it'd add another non-removable shortcut
>> to the list.
>>
> 
> You're the boss, boss. But I'd argue that it ought to be there,
> because not having it creates the aforementioned problem with the file
> selector, and is inconsistent. Sure, it's Gtk pressing out hand on the
> issue, and Firefox makes it worse by defaulting to saving downloads
> there.
> 
> It's consistent, and it cuts down on wasted bookmark space in the file
> selector, where the space really matters. I felt Gtk+ should never
> have included it in the first place, but there you go.
> 
> If you still disagree, I'm done making my case ;-)
> 

FWLIW, I agree with Erik. I'm fine with it either way, though, so maybe 
I should have kept quite ... oops, too late ;)

cheers,
	Jasper