Jamie McCracken schrieb:
Benjamin Meyer wrote:
I found that in OS X they have a function (FSFindFolder) which will return the translated name of the folder for display purposes.
Disclaimer: I don't know offhand whether OSX localizes the folder name or only the display. The latter is vastly superior IMHO (see my other mail).
They've had an API to retrieve the names of folders for various things since MacOS 7 (early 1990ies). MS Windows copied this (iirc in Win 95).
yes but that inadequate for us cause we need to configure the paths rather than hardcode them (which would cause endless arguments as I stated above and int he links)
Environment variables are a pain for this and don't scale too well. OSX now supports a long list of folder types, and distinguishing between physical names and localized display names doubles the count. If an API is defined, you can put any amount of configuration and localization machinery behind or you can choose a simple fixed table lookup. This can be a configurable or per-distro choice. In some installations system admins may want to restrict customization by users. On the other hand you may want to support automatisms like auto-changing the configuration, if a users drags their document folder elsewhere (iirc this works in MS Windows).
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