The solutions requiring directory renames etc., are also a nightmare and having run Windows in Norwegian and then struggled as things fucked up as things are placed in 'Program Files' instead of 'Program Filer' in the filesystem I am sure any attempt we make at localizing directory structures will cause users much more harm than anything else. And as far as your examples go both Firefox and OpenOffice would be 'GNOME' as far as this goes.
But at the end of the day these are implementation details. The real question is what problems we are trying to fix and if there is general agreement those problems need fixing. For Elisa we would really like to avoid having to present the users with a file hierarchy in the GUI if possible which means we need a means of being able to find their media files without for instance popping up a directory chooser. The simple solution is to start from the user home directory and search everything recursively. The problem with this approach is that it can be very time consuming on many users system which is why being able to depend on only needing to search certain subdirectory hierarchies could be a tempting solution. People have mentioned Tracker on this mailing list and we do plan on investigating using that as it would be a good solution to our problem. We are though a little worried about performance of such a solution, not because we know of any concrete performance hitches with Tracker, but just a general worry that a generic all directory encompassing solution might not give performance at a level acceptable to our users. From experience I know that music player developers for instance are very sensitive to how fast they are able to display items in your 10 000 song collection and get the metadata from those songs onto the screen. Christian On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:53 +0000, Alan wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:24:21 +0100 > "Christian F.K. Schaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If Directory names are localized in the GUI do it really matter what > > they are called in the filesystem? I mean the whole Unix file hierarchy > > is essentially English as it is. > > Everything breaks horribly the moment the file name and the directory > name as shown by GNOME differ. The world is not GNOME. Firefox is not > GNOME, all the KDE apps are not GNOME, most proprietary software is not > GNOME, OpenOffice is not GNOME. > > For a combined GUI/Shell user doing hacks in gnomespace instead of just > using proper directory naming is a nightmare. > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
