Re: xdg-user-dirs – purpose?

[IFo Hancroft]

Sry, forgot to add the list in the e-mail.

VLC cares about the Picture folder because of screenshots you make of
the video file being played.

On 11/09/2017 04:58 PM, Roman Chistokhodov wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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