Joel Rees said: > Maybe it would be better just to not make those directories until they > are needed by an application, and then ask the user to name them > instead of providing standard names.
Actually, it is still workable if you carry your ~/.config/user-dirs.dir around, so that you could install it before you first log into GNOME. I used this approach to sanitize structure of my home directory when I needed a working GNOME desktop. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff