On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:13 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Alexander Larsson píše v Pá 23. 02. 2007 v 08:52 +0100: > > You might want to change it yourself, even if its not done > > automatically. i.e. I can imagine a "make this the default location for > > photos" menu item in a file manager. > > I have been thinking more about it. I am not against localized names, > but I am against automatic creation of any visible directories.
And I can understand such a viewpoint. Actually I'm pretty sure a lot of people will dislike these directories being created. However, the people who get irritated about things like that are generally in a category of users who can handle changing settings to what they like. In this case, all they have to do is to delete the directories once (or disable the whole thing in one config file). Or if they like the approach but have a different folder setup they can easily set that up (even easier if the desktop has a gui for this, but thats not strictly necessary). The reason you want to do this by default even if some people get pissed is that for a lot of people this is a really nice feature, and many wouldn't ever notice or use it unless it was on by default. They won't to look for it, or how to set it up. So, if we get things working for these people with zero manual work, and make it very easy for others to disable or configure it I think we have a net win. > It would be nice to be able to control these directories from GUI, and > even initial creation should show GUI (and rationale) for it and a way > for disabling some or all of them (and re-enabling later). But it's an > implementation note above the scope of your proposal. Of course, above and beyond the lowest level of standardization each desktop will integrate this in the GUI in whatever way they think is good. I don't want to specify how that should work though, its up to each desktop and is likely to change in the future as we have new ideas and get feedback. I mostly agree with what you write, although I think its a bit overly focused on the "default file selector" directory. That is one use for these directories. However, in almost all cases the best default directory for a fileselector is "what you used last time", so the default directory things is more of a default default directory and shouldn't be over-ephasized. Another useful thing is for applications to add places to the file selector, so even if rhythmbox starts the fileselector in the last opened location there is an easy-to-find shortcut to the music dir. They could also be used to add places to things like file manager and panel menus. Also, changing cwd automatically like that isn't really a good idea. That affects all sorts of things like where coredumps are saved, how relative pathnames are resolved, etc. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's a fast talking one-eyed photographer with a mysterious suitcase handcuffed to his arm. She's a mentally unstable kleptomaniac angel in the witness protection program. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg