[D-community-offtopic] Showing contents of $HOME instead of Desktop [was: Re: Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?]

[Waqqas Dadabhoy]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Andrei Popescu
<andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but showing $HOME instead of $HOME/Desktop by
> default seems like a bad idea.

Why is it a bad idea? Is it from a 'someone looking over your
shoulder' standpoint or for some other reason?