to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > To whomever tries that approach, my advice would be to have a long look > at all the botches common destop environments managed to do while trying > to internationalise directories beneath a user's home. > > I mean: those things like "Desktop", which, if you do a German installation > are "Schreibtisch". And those aren't "standard Unix" directories, that means > that little software knows them, ergo they had the chance to start off a > relatively clean slate.
The XDG conventions are a good thing to look at. https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! -dsr-