On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:52:33PM -0800, John Fischer wrote: > XDG User Dirs is a tool to help manage "well known" user directories > like the desktop folder and the music folder. It also handles > localization (i.e. translation) of the filenames.
What management does it do, other than translating the names? When it does do translation, what does that mean? Does it create a symlink from "Mein Musik" to "My Music"? Does it rename the directory? > Typically these directories are accessed in applications using the > Committed glib 2.14 function: > > g_get_user_special_dir() Do applications have to do something different to access the new directory names, or does g_get_user_special_dir() use the xdg files to figure out where to look? > $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/user-dirs.dirs (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to > ~/.config) That seems *awfully* generic. Is that the standard value on real Linux systems? Danek
