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

[Todd Kulesza <todd dropline net>]

Seth Nickell wrote:
> 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?

To keep this simple, I'm just going to use "Documents" as an example 
folder, but the idea would apply to any default folder we add.

This may be pure crack, but what if, on each login, GNOME checks for the 
existance of "Documents" in the user's home directory by comparing a 
list of translations for "Documents".  If it finds a match that's not in 
the user's current locale, and no "Documents" folder is found in the 
current language, it renames the folder based on the user's current 
language.  Then we have one GConf key to toggle this behaviour, since 
obviously some people may not want it.  This way, no matter what 
application the person uses, that folder will show up with the correct 
name.  GNOME, KDE, Xlib, terminal apps, whatever--they'll all work.

I agree with you that most users won't care what language a folder is 
displayed in.  I think they'd see it would make perfect sense, based on 
their language selection: everything else on the desktop is translated, 
so why not generic folder names as well?

Todd