[CREATE] shared resources spec

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 06.10.05, 12:07 +0200 schrieb Michael Schumacher:

> > Von: Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de>
>  
> > Am 05.10.05, 14:28 -0700 schrieb Jon Phillips:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 15:52 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > 
> > > > 1. Does everyone agree to have "art-supplies" as root directory for
> > > > resources? It could be "create" instead, btw. It kinda confuses me
> > > > that everyone is silent on this topic :)
> >  
> > Jon: media
> > Allan: create
> > 
> > Why not shorten "art-supplies" to "art". It seems clear that no one stores
> > art in such an /usr/... or ~/.* directory. It is much related to arts.
> > 
> > In german I would suggest "Malkasten", which can be translated to 
> > paint-box. 
> > It is pretty unique there.
>  
> I don't know if localizing the name in the directory structure is a good
> thing to do - using the same name here with all languages would be better.
> Since it isn't directly accessible on neither platform so far (hidden on
> unix, hard to get to on windows for users), apps putting stuff there have to
> present it in their UI anyway - an there "Malkasten" can be used, for
> example.

Excuse me, the brain was so much storming ;-)

Of course it is not usable as only ~100 Million people would understand 
and a majority not. An latin / english work is prefered. "paint" could be 
derived from as a candidate.

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Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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