Right - and I thought that GNOME 2.22 slipped from nv_88 to a later build
last week (though that may be in the mail Calum hasn't caught up on yet).
-alan-
Irene Huang wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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