Re: A Few Standard Folders [Re: Structure in $HOME]

[Todd Kulesza <todd dropline net>]

Alan Horkan wrote:
> I would be very interested to see
> $HOME/Documents
> $HOME/Images
> $HOME/Music
> $HOME/Web Pages
> $HOME/Video
> perhaps more ...

I'd like to either add a $HOME/Downloads directory or change "Web Pages" 
to read as "Downloads".  Mozilla, Galeon, gFTP, etc., could then all 
default to using that directory to download files to.  Setting up GConf 
keys for each generic location would also be cool, so that a control 
panel applet could be written to modify them, and then any application 
which wanted to use them would know where the user wants a particular 
file saved.  For instance, we could have a key 
/system/default_directories/documents with $HOME/Documents as its 
default value, and whenever Gnumeric or Abiword open a Save File dialog, 
they could read that key to determine the default path.

Todd