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

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

And who has to set the GConf key? (Serious question, not trying to throw
stones) Is your suggstion that to get a localised desktop, non-English
speakers are expected to go set 5 or 6 "folder names" to be folder names
in their native language rather than English? Or would they
automatically be set this way if you login for the very first time in a
non-English locale? Or would they automatically get set whenever you
login to a non-English locale?

Setting 5 or 6 folder names per person to get a desktop in my native
language is 5 or 6 settings more than your basic English speaker (most
of whom customize nothing the first time they sit down at, say, Windows)
has to do to have a basically usable desktop. Is this preference really
that special?

-Seth

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 13:02, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> It would be nicer to have totally normal directory, and customise where
> "Movies" are stored in gconf. Otherwise you'll really confuse
> terminal/dual-windowing-something-else-with-gnome users.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 20:53, 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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