Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Mer, 2004-12-01 at 02:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alan Cox">
> No, the i18n proposal revolves around consistent on-disk names (such as
> "~/Desktop") and translation in the user interface. Sure, letting the user
> configure all of their 'special' directories gives you i18n "for free", but
> you lose the consistent on-disk names.

The argument is that you want reconfigurable names anyway for file
sharing, or even better something like Dobey has. If that argument is
accepted then the whole argument about on-disk names is irrelevant. Its
bunk anyway for this because you don't want consistent on disk names for
sharing.