http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Thomas Lübking <[email protected]> wrote: > On Freitag, 11. September 2015 00:16:35 CEST, Harald Sitter wrote: > >> being my confused self I am rather clueless as to where the correct >> place to implement this is, so any help on this would be very welcome. > > > http://www.linfo.org/etc_skel.html > > Guessing the "correct" folder icon by the directory name/path is rather > wonky. > I don't have ~/music or ~/images but somewhen (ages ago) created ~/MyFiles > and put subdirs for specific types there. > > So i rather have ~/MyFiles/Images than eg. "~/Images" or "~/My Images" or > "~/MyImages" or "~/Meine Bilder" - which is localized and that's the next > problem of "guessing" icons from directory names. > > A distro could possibly add downstream patches to dolphin and/or KFileItem > to match their autocreated paths (because they also patched useradd instead > of using /etc/skel?) but I doubt there's any way to do that upstream without > adding a *very* long and hackish list of path/icon mapping (ending up > incompatible with the hackish(?) list in gnome and totally not covering > other desktop environments. > > => simply follow the present standards to > a) create a $HOME structure > b) define directory icons etc. > > Cheers, > Thomas
