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

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 07:12, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> You could give the option on "First login" of setting it up - which
> could be as simple as:
> 
> Do you want GNOME to configure default folders for your files?
>                                                     [No] [Yes]

Worded somewhat differently, but a good idea. :-)

> If you press yes, you get a folder name config box with defaults filled
> in from the current locale. With a note: "GNOME will create any folders
> that do not exist."
> 
> And after first login, you set a GConf key so you don't ask again.

That seems like a fairly reasonable solution, esp. if the default
folders were based on the current locale. Of course, we wouldn't ask
people to set a GConf key to change this in the future, so we'd have to
have a new preference page (or part thereof), but that's not too
terrible. We do need a first login assistant, probably the first
question of which would be selecting the person's preferred language.

-Seth