Hi, Calum Are you sure that GNOME 2.22 is going to be in the indiana first release? My understanding is that Nevada Build 86 with GNOME 2.20 is going in to that release. However. yes, xdg-user-dirs will be in the first release of Indiana.
--Irene On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:31 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > (Just catching up on this conversation again after my extended Easter > break...) > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:20 -0700, Frank Ludolph wrote: > > > The deeper it is hidden in the hierarchy, the harder it is to locate. > > Putting it in ~Desktop/ means that it will appear on the desktop, > > which may not be good if we want to work toward an icon-free desktop > > as I suggested earlier. Putting it in ~Documents seems slightly > > strange as some of the things I download are not docs so it isn't > > intuitive to me that I should look there to find Downloads. Desktop, > > Downloads, and Docs feel to be of equivalent level to me, system > > created, user specific containers. > > FWIW, GNOME 2.22 (which will be in the Indiana 1.0 release) does provide > a number of such folders by default, courtesy of the xdg-user-dirs spec: > <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs>. > > It's only minimally-configurable at present, so for this release the > most important decision is probably whether we want all such folders > (Download, Templates, Public, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos) or > none of them-- we can't trivially turn them on or off individually yet > AFAIK. > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
