Re: xdg-user-dirs – purpose?

[Roman Chistokhodov]

MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS may be used by applications as default folder to
look for this kind of files. E.g. VLC uses it to make playlists named My
Music, My Videos and My Pictures (not sure why VLC cares about pictures
though).
Shotwell uses Pictures folder ti import photos.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Thomas U. Grüttmüller <sloyment at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I could not find within the documentation of xdg-user-dirs anything about
> the *purpose* of these directories. For some dirs, their purpose is
> obvious, for others not.
>
>            DESKTOP
>
> *Some* file managers display this folder in the root window. Others, e.g.
> ROX, don’t.
>
>            TEMPLATES
>
> This looks very useful. You can put file templates there. Each of them
> will generate a menu item in the file manager like “New HTML file…”.
>
>            DOWNLOAD
>
> This folder is a dump where the web browser will put all sorts of
> downloaded files. After a short time there will be total chaos. :-(
>
>            PUBLICSHARE
>
> This looks interesting. Has it ever been implemented? It reminds me of the
> public_html folder found in older distributions.
>
>            DOCUMENTS
>
> The purpose is not obvious. Gimp uses it as a default to save pictures;
> Anki uses it to store its configuration files…
>
>            MUSIC
>            PICTURES
>            VIDEOS
>
> No program seems to use these folders. Their purpose is not obvious to me.
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas
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