Jamie McCracken schrieb:
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.
There are lots of candidates for this.
The conclusion was we would not hardcode the paths of the directories
because of language translations,
I don't think translating the physical names of the directories is a
good idea. It causes all sorts of problems when people access their home
directory using different locales. Will they end up with multiple
instances of the same data? Or with a mixed-language UI?
whether to have them in $Home or
$Desktop, making them configurable so Documents could point to a shared
folder on a server etc
Configurability (per distro, system or user) can also cause problems.
But if there are political obstacles to achieving consensus, we probably
won't get around it.
I believe the best solution was to have environment variables to get the
paths for each respective folder so anybody could configure how they like.
I think an API for retrieving folder names (physical and display) is far
superior for this. All of MacOS, Mac OSX and MS Windows have this.
Ciao, Joerg
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