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

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

Also, consistency with non-gnome apps would terrible, if nautilus
calls "~/Video Games" "~/Video Juego"s and the user loads up a 
terminal or a non-gnome app they won't know what "~/Video Games" is.

John
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:06:26PM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> Lots of evil edge cases though. What happens when you have folder A
> called "George" which gets translated as "Giorgio", but in the same
> directory is a folder *actually* called "Giorgio"? Where do you go when
> the user goes to "file:///Giorgio"... Also, this takes reading every
> .directory file in every subdir whenever you go to a location. I don't
> know what sort of performance penalty that would have.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:53, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > It could be possible to have nautilus transparently support that through
> > the desktop files. Though, I imagine it could get nasty if lot's of
> > things were read from desktop files.
> > 
> > -- dobey
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:42, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > These things all raise an (IMO) important issue though... How do we deal
> > > with the l10n issue? One option is to use .directory files to provide
> > > translations just before folder names get displayed to the user (in
> > > Nautilus)... but then you have problems where the location in the
> > > location bar doesn't match the name of the folder you went into. (for
> > > example, you click on "Video Juegos" and end up in
> > > "file:///home/seth/Video Games/").
> > > 
> > > -Seth
> > > 
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