That's cool. I like Desktop/Download.

Thanks,
fujiwara

Darren Kenny wrote:
> Well I think the problem is that these directories are defined in the glib
> API[1] and used for the g_get_user_special_dir() function.
> 
> What may be possible though is to move some of them into sub-directories, 
> e.g.:
> 
>       Desktop
>       Desktop/Documents
>       Desktop/Download
>       Desktop/Public
>       Desktop/Documents/Templates
>       Desktop/Multimedia/Music
>       Desktop/Multimedia/Picture
>       Desktop/Multimedia/Videos
> 
> There are many variations on this, but this is most like Windows - except for
> the Multimedia dir, but this seems to make sense.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darren.
> 
> [1]
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions.html#GUserDirectory
> 
> Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
> 
>>BTW, I'ld like to ask base team to review the usability if we need all dirs, 
>>Music, Picture, Videos... with user-dirs.defaults by default.
>>Personally Desktop and Documents are enough for me. Download might be 
>>prepared for Firefox?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>fujiwara
>>
>>Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks much for your query.
>>>I'm applying this change and please let me check if we have any problems.
>>>
>>>Darren Kenny wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Takao-san,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your explanation, you are certainly better experienced in this 
>>>>area
>>>>than I am, if you feel that this is the correct way for Solaris then I will
>>>>defer to you.
>>>>
>>>>I'm quite surprised to find that Fedora 8 has this when Alex works for 
>>>>RedHat,
>>>>but what do I know ;)
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Darren.
>>>>
>>>>Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Darren Kenny wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Takao-san,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How does this effect the behaviour?
>>>>>
>>>>>It makes the filename with the current encoding.
>>>>>My understanding is Fedora 8 also has the same setting.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>As I understood it - regardless of locale in GNOME - filename were 
>>>>>>encoded in
>>>>>>the UTF-8 locale - at least this is what Alex Larsson (of GNOME VFS fame) 
>>>>>>said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If that is correct, how does this change alter that?
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure which description you indicate however I guess it explains 
>>>>>the internal encoding instead of the input/output encodings.
>>>>>
>>>>>I recognize this kind of topics are introduced in ARC but I was not sure 
>>>>>if I should comment it.
>>>>>The main problem is the users write the filenames with the current 
>>>>>encoding, e.g. mkdir foo-multibytes, then if applications output UTF-8 
>>>>>only, the file path includes multi encoded file paths, it causes SEGV in 
>>>>>many applications.
>>>>>Then our basical policy is to output the filenames with the current 
>>>>>encodings especially for local path "file:///" so that applications work 
>>>>>fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>We also defines G_BROKEN_FILENAMES for none UTF-8 filenames.
>>>>>Currently none UTF-8 locales are supported so we need to avoid critical 
>>>>>problems likes crashes.
>>>>>
>>>>>All I can say is the saved encoding should be UTF-8 likes .desktop, 
>>>>>.scheme files.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does it make sense?
>>>>>
>>>>>I'ld also like to see if we have actual problems in case we put 
>>>>>filename_encoding=locale.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>fujiwara
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Darren.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'ld like to change the default parameter to work on none UTF-8 locales.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
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