well-known user folders, a proposal

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 26 February 2007 10:15, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 09:22 +0100, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Movies is in the latest version, but i'm a bit about applications. What
> apps would use that on unix?

Third party installers maybe (usually used for games), or software installed 
via autopackage, klik, zeroinstall

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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