XDG Base Directory Spec

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sun Feb 8 22:00:12 EET 2004


On Sunday 08 February 2004 20:53, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 19:35, Lee Willis wrote:
...
> This has been hashed out on GNOME mailing lists before. The big problem
> is that directory names aren't localisable, so promoting that as a
> "standard" is a problem for users of different locales.

You mean translatable ? Mac OSX does this. Why shouldn't we...
There is a set of directories which you don't see in the finder (all the unix 
dirs like /bin, /usr, ...) and others which get translated names in finder.

Bye
Alex
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