On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:27, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Benjamin Meyer wrote: > > I am curious if anyone has through about making a storage location > > standard for user directories. More generic then Trash there are a > > handfull of directories that would be usefull to know such as: Desktop, > > Documents, Applications, Music, Movies, and Pictures. > > IIRC, this was discussed a year ago or so on the gnome-dev lists. Other > folders were specified too like Downloads and Templates.
Do you remember which list and/or the list of folders that was created? > The conclusion was we would not hardcode the paths of the directories > because of language translations, whether to have them in $Home or > $Desktop, making them configurable so Documents could point to a shared > folder on a server etc I found that in OS X they have a function (FSFindFolder) which will return the translated name of the folder for display purposes. -Benjamin Meyer
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