well-known user folders, a proposal

Benjamin Meyer benjamin.meyer at trolltech.com
Mon Feb 26 00:22:38 PST 2007


On Friday 23 February 2007 22:09, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> >Both Windows and OS X also have a "Movies" and "Applications" directory.
> >  It would be nice to match them.  Not that these two have to be
> > created, but if they were there it would be nice to know where.
> >
> >-Benjamin Meyer
>
> Hey Ben,
>
> I agree with Movies, but what would we put in Applications? Installing
> applications isn't that easy in a generic way on Linux yet.

Neither is it on Windows. :D  It just points to C:\Program Files if I recall.  
Not that informative.

-Benjamin Meyer
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