And then, like epiphany, when I switch locales, and download things, I can end up with multiple desktop directories too. No thanks. If we're going to translate directory names, then they should be translated as part of the directory's metadata, such as a .directory file within it. As for ~/Desktop... your $HOME should just be that anyway. -- dobey On Pre , 2004-05-28 at 12:47 +0100, Mathias wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 20:36, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > There are some implementation problems to consider as well, that I at > > > least have yet to see a good generic solution for. Assuming you've got > > > some list of directories agreed (which is definitely not a desktop-devel > > > item in itself) consider what happens when I log in in English, save my > > > photographs, log in in Welsh and save some more. > > > > Also, any solution to this problem needs to be used for the currently > > existing ~/Desktop and ~/Templates too. > > This may sound silly but what about replacing ~/Desktop ~/Templates > ~/Pictures ... by ~/.desktop ~/.templates ~/.pictures > > Then we can create symbolic links to these directories using the current > locale, so ~/Bureau would point to ~/.desktop if I log in in French, and > ~/Bilder would point to ~/.pictures in German. > > Of course we would need to store these translated locations somewhere so > every app could retrieve them easily. > > > I'm sorry to add noise to the list if this is irrelevant. > > Mathias
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