Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Here's a good place to start fixing things:

http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/broken-i18n-dirnames.png

Enjoy your hacking.

-- dobey


On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:10 -0500, Peter Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:51 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Uh-huh.  User B is in the Pig Latin locale.  User B opens Nautilus and
> > sees folders like Esktopday and Ublicpay.  User B opens RandomQtApp,
> > which she uses regularly as part of her job.  RandomQtApp shows User B
> > folders named Desktop and Public.  Multiple choice:
> > 
> > A) User B is impressed that certain applications are able to translate
> > her folder names dynamically, and wishes the other applications would do
> > the same.  She goes so far as to file a bug against RandomQtApp.
> > 
> > B) User B doesn't even understand that they're the same folders, and
> > thinks that "Linux" is broken.
> > 
> > C) User B goes back to her shiny Mac.
> 
> I think we all understand that the inconsistency between the displayed
> name the filesystem name is not exactly cool. But neither is having to
> do
> 
> 	if [ -d ~/Desktop ] ; then
> 		desktopdir=~/Desktop
> 	elif [ -d ~/Esktopday ] ; then
> 		desktopdir=~/Esktopday
> 	...
> 	cp my-cheesy-program.desktop $desktopdir
> 
> Fixing apps to display things correctly seems like a much more tractable
> problem than essentially trying to guess the directory name. Users don't
> have to guess the name, but applications do, and applications are
> stupider than users. The best workaround I can think of is something
> like
> 
> 	~/Esktopday
> 	~/Emplatestay
> 	~/.special-folders/Desktop -> ../Esktopday
> 	~/.special-folders/Templates -> ../Emplatestay
> 
> But I doubt that solves anything: no doubt links can break / not exist,
> and clueless app authors will still try to copy things to ~/Desktop.
> 
> Peter
>