Le vendredi 23 février 2007 à 14:25 +0100, Alexander Larsson a écrit : > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:13 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > Alexander Larsson píše v Pá 23. 02. 2007 v 08:52 +0100: > > > You might want to change it yourself, even if its not done > > > automatically. i.e. I can imagine a "make this the default location for > > > photos" menu item in a file manager. > > > > I have been thinking more about it. I am not against localized names, > > but I am against automatic creation of any visible directories. > > And I can understand such a viewpoint. Actually I'm pretty sure a lot of > people will dislike these directories being created. However, the people > who get irritated about things like that are generally in a category of > users who can handle changing settings to what they like. In this case, > all they have to do is to delete the directories once (or disable the > whole thing in one config file). Or if they like the approach but have a > different folder setup they can easily set that up (even easier if the > desktop has a gui for this, but thats not strictly necessary). > > The reason you want to do this by default even if some people get pissed > is that for a lot of people this is a really nice feature, and many > wouldn't ever notice or use it unless it was on by default. They won't > to look for it, or how to set it up. So, if we get things working for > these people with zero manual work, and make it very easy for others to > disable or configure it I think we have a net win.
Still giving a little feedback from our own user folders experience (which is 2 years old now) : I never read ANY complains (or got but reports) about it. So, I guess your analysis is correct. But we just need to add a way to disable it at system level, for administrative purpose. -- Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mandriva _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
