Almost every desktop environment that has reached an acceptable amount of quality has structures to appear good for most private users. The user's home directory has sub-directories like "my music", "my movies", "my photos" - but why is there no desktop environment (in best case very lightweight and effects-free) that comes with a structure like "my projects", "my drafts", "my image resources", "my laboratory/unit tests"?
I use Linux as a webserver for running rails-apps and as a development machine for rails, c# mono, somewhat ASP mono and of course for browsing the web.
Where is the desktop environment for people like me? Or better said, for every person that is developing applications in a GUI-based IDE.
Have all the hackers and free contributors forgot to unify their requirements for work in a desktop environment of their kind?
Imagine a desktop environment, serving all your requirements - and demands on getting it lightweight, installed with all dependencies by hitting apt-get install developers-desktop
.
Or does it already exist and I just have not found it?
~/code
, my custom bins/shell scripts in~/bin
, and my other odds and ends in various other places, however, I know a guy who freaks out if his code isn't in~/projects
- there is no standard naming convention.