Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:06 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote:
> 
> Simply introducing another instance of the issue is not getting us
> closer to solving the problem, nor should we endorse such approach.
> 

We have to solve it for Desktop so we can just assume Public is done the
same way.

Why not just hack g_filename_display_name() to call gettext
("Public")/gettext ("Desktop") if it sees ~/Public or ~/Desktop.

Simple, fast, and works in the important cases. It doesn't work in some
corner cases:
 - symlinks (and adding stat() calls or something to fix this seems bad)
 - accessing someone else's homedir

But, I think it's fine to punt those cases.

A gconf key to let you configure the directory has worse results than
those corner cases: it results in people not using the right directory,
and just generally adds a piece of complexity to the system that history
has shown will tend to break.

.directory files also had worse results than these corner cases: they
made everything slow, and there's the question of when you create them
and whether they ever get updated with new translations and so forth.
More complexity.

Better a nice, reliable hack than some overengineered thing, I bet.

Havoc