On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:16 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: [snip] > Lots of people *do* have "foreign" applications on their system. > I know we all like to talk about dear old Aunt Tilly, but one of > the places we've made inroads is the old UNIX workstation market. > In those markets, the third-party software is the computer. It's > not just some extra application, it's the whole reason you've > even logged in to the computer.
And those systems generally expose a lot of the internal file-structure, that is already littered with English or English-like names. > Having a different name isn't like having a different color or > a different icon. We could live with color or icon differences. > But the name is the single distinguishing characteristic of the > folder. > > Say my file manager shows me "Bilder" and my expensive vertical > application shows me "Pictures". Am I going to shrug my shoulders > and say "Oh, expensive vertical application didn't translate that > folder name."? I doubt it. Even if I speak both languages, I'd > assume they're different folders, and I'd be very confused as to > why different folders disappear in different applications. Yes, I agree this would be confusing. > This *will* happen. Your argument against Matthias's suggestion > was that applications *might* put things into Pictures instead > of $PICTURES. Even if we turn that "might" into a "will", all > that happens is that some files are in weird different places. > But all of those weird different places are visible, always, in > all applications. No funny disappearing folders. This is quite a compelling argument, I admit. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list