Re: volumes mark 2

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:17, Frank Worsley wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> >> What happens if someone moves his "Documents" folder from ~/Desktop to
> >> ~/Desktop/foo ? The "Documents" folder would still have the .docdir file
> >> but will Nautilus recursively look for this file ? I guess not.. But
> >> maybe FAM could help there (disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking
> >> about) ?
> >
> > I'm not sure we can afford doing a deep search for it, so this might
> > mean we don't find the .docdir file and use ~/Desktop instead. Or maybe
> > doing a recursive search is fast enough, we can experiment with that.
> 
> Why wouldn't you put a .docdir file in ~/Desktop and the file contains a
> single line that specifies where the 'Documents' directory is? That way it
> can be anywhere in the file system and it could even be a remote gnome-vfs
> uri. It would be cool to maybe have
> "sftp://my-main-machine/home/frank/docs"; as my documents directory on all
> machines that I use! Since most gnome apps now support gnome-vfs that is
> not so far fetched.
> 
> Nautilus then just reads that file on startup and puts a nautilus link on
> the desktop that points to that location and uses the translated name.

No, that wouldn't really work. Other apps wouldn't have the magic
documents link there.

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