well-known user folders, a proposal

Kent Schumacher kent at structural-wood.com
Thu Feb 22 08:17:06 PST 2007


On 02/22/2007 10:10 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:28 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>> As a personal note, I prefer Photos, but this is because I only do
>> photos. So Pictures is better. 
>>
>> Or maybe we should separate both (since Photos might be more relevant
>> for apps like digikam or f-spit).
> 
> I'm not sure we should introduce to many directories. (Although we could
> point both PHOTOS and PICTURES to the same place by default and allow
> people more dirs if they need it...)
> 
> What I did atm was that I added both "Pictures" and "Photos" to the set
> of gettexted strings, so both these will be translated right if set up
> by the sysadmin.
> 
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>  Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 

I run a business LTSP installation, and the last thing I really want is 
a whole bunch of useless directories in my home directory, my file 
selectors (gnome), and in my file manager.  There has to be an easy to 
set policy that completely disables this behavior...




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