Sry, forgot to add the list in the e-mail. VLC cares about the Picture folder because of screenshots you make of the video file being played.
On 11/09/2017 04:58 PM, Roman Chistokhodov wrote: > MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS may be used by applications as default folder > to look for this kind of files. E.g. VLC uses it to make playlists named > My Music, My Videos and My Pictures (not sure why VLC cares about > pictures though). > Shotwell uses Pictures folder ti import photos. > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Thomas U. Grüttmüller <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I could not find within the documentation of xdg-user-dirs anything > about the *purpose* of these directories. For some dirs, their > purpose is obvious, for others not. > > DESKTOP > > *Some* file managers display this folder in the root window. Others, > e.g. ROX, don’t. > > TEMPLATES > > This looks very useful. You can put file templates there. Each of > them will generate a menu item in the file manager like “New HTML > file…”. > > DOWNLOAD > > This folder is a dump where the web browser will put all sorts of > downloaded files. After a short time there will be total chaos. :-( > > PUBLICSHARE > > This looks interesting. Has it ever been implemented? It reminds me > of the public_html folder found in older distributions. > > DOCUMENTS > > The purpose is not obvious. Gimp uses it as a default to save > pictures; Anki uses it to store its configuration files… > > MUSIC > PICTURES > VIDEOS > > No program seems to use these folders. Their purpose is not obvious > to me. > > Greetings, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > <https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
