Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:23:00PM -0800, John Plocher wrote: >> Hugh McIntyre wrote: >>> But on the other hand, I'm fairly sure that it I type "mv Music >>> Music.old" on MacOS, the desktop does not track this and instead creates >>> a new Music directory next time I fire up iTunes. In fact, if using "mv >>> Music Music.backup", I've relied on this in the past. Sometimes the >>> user may want the system to start with a new directory... >> >> The current behavior is inconsistent. >> >> If you do the rename in the GUI file manager, the "remembered" name is >> updated, >> but if you do it via the desktop terminal program, it doesn't. >> >> Doing it the same (always updating or never) would be good; it is the >> difference >> in behavior that is bad, combined with a hidden remembered value that is >> difficult >> to change. >> >> If the desktop starts up and can't find the expected/old dir, there needs >> to be a way for me to update the "remembered value": "please use 'Music' >> instead >> of the default 'My Music'..." > > Yeah, it'd be better if the thing was re-created with the "remembered" > name when you rename it. Instead there should be a way to tell the > system where you want your music (images, whatever). That sounds a lot > more sane to me.
I believe that the reasoning behind this is that if you remove the directory then you don't want it again - if we were to change to re-creating the directory then each time the user logs in a directory that they removed will re-appear - in some ways this is actually more annoying. Darren.
