Re: RFC: Common desktop-wide paths

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-10-04 at 11:03, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
>
> > Why not just do it as they seem to do in Mac OSX, the actual directory 
> > names on disk are in English and then translated in Nautilus only. So if 
> > you access your home directory by a powertool such as the terminal you 
> > go to ~/Desktop no matter if it's named Skrivbord (Swedish) in Nautilus.
>
> And KDE, and openoffice and mozilla, and over NFS to other system types,
> and xfce. No that one really is ugly and asking for confused users. Even
> renaming them in some future gnome-language tool would be preferable
> (and might be sensible anyway).

I agree for applications but not for different desktop environments. 
Since this conversation would most likely take place in GnomeVFS any 
application using that shouldn't have a problem.

And iirc people are working on both openoffice and mozilla to integrate 
it better with GNOME by providing GnomeVFS backend. (I might remember 
wrongly though).

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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