Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 18:41 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 
> Agreed. Simply because it's historically done this way, doesn't make it
> correct or optimal. It just makes it easy. If I open a terminal,
> shouldn't the folder names be the same, when I run "ls"? It seems odd to
> have something in cyrillic in the UI, and then go to the terminal, and
> see "Public". Then again, having it just automatically be translated,
> will also break, since then you will end up with multiple copies of the
> same folder, when you switch locales.

Guys, we can't design around the terminal. Remember that we don't even
have filesystem paths in the UI. The terminal is another planet. A goal
of GNOME should be "you don't have to use the terminal for anything" and
the target audience of GNOME should be people who certainly don't want
to.

When bash is willing to link to gconf and gnome-vfs, then we can talk
about caring about the terminal. Until then, trying to keep the user
model consistent between UI and terminal will be a giant boat anchor.
Screw it.

Havoc