>> > You'd have to solve the "translate strings in filesystem or in UI"
>> dilemma
>> > first...

This is unsolveable so it's not sensible to wait for it to be solved.
Anything that leads to having hundreds of different on-disk directory
names for "standard" directories would be a support nightmare, precisely
because they would not longer be standard.

Just use English file names for these directories, just like we already
use English names for /Desktop, for /home, and for a thousand other
directories and files. It only affects use of the command-line terminal,
because GNOME and KDE and XFCE can show the translated name in the UI
instead of the English.

You already can't use a command-line shell without knowing lots of
English, and this won't make that much worse.

Murray Cumming
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com

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