https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513029
--- Comment #4 from AlexB <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Ben Opp from comment #3) > (In reply to AlexB from comment #1) > > If this a distro issue related to the installer or whatever else - Are you > saying that there are distros that don't have this discrepancy? No, I don't because I don't know if it is so. > I guess Arbeitsfläche is the prettier term semantically, but Schreibtisch is > nicer "computationally", it has only ASCII characters so it will never cause > problems in a (highly frequented) file path, … I agree about usage of only ASCII characters and that this would make many things easier. But one have to take into account that there are much more languages than only English and German. And most of them needs at least UTF-8, e. g. French, …, Chinese, Japanese > … and surely everyone understands what it's referring to. I agree too, same applies in my opinion to current situation: Label in Dophin says „Arbeitsfläche“, after right-click on it you see where it is pointing to: „/home/someuser/Schreibtisch“ > But I'd really like to find out if distros exist (with official KDE out of > the box) where that directory is also named Arbeitsfläche. I can't say 100% > sure, but I think I've never seen one. Will however investigate on the > Garuda side as well. You have to think much wider: It is possible to install different desktop environments on same base. Once you want to run one DE, another time another one. But you underlying file system (folder and files) are staying same. But you cannot push both (e. g. KDE and another DE) to use same strings… My assumption: following variables are showing what DE is now running: $ printenv | grep DESKTOP DESKTOP_SESSION=plasmax11 XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE Also KDE is able to run on Smartphones, TVs, … But underlying OS on them could be different one. As you see, free software is free to be used and free to decide what is the best in different cases. What you need is some interface, in case of DESKTOP and which folder is use for it one could use: $ xdg-user-dir DESKTOP /home/someuser/Schreibtisch or as you could see on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/391915/where-is-the-path-to-the-current-users-desktop-directory-stored it is: /home/arnie97/桌面 By the way: I have just created a new user „test“, logged in and see: $ ls Bilder Dokumente Downloads Musik Öffentlich Schreibtisch Videos Vorlagen → „Schreibtisch“ is there → was created after log in. → „Öffentlich“ is there → not ASCII → Some underlying part (of Linux?) is creating those folders → possible not related to a distro… Please note: all above is just my opinion to your points, not some official statement ;-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
