Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 10/12/04 12:33, Julien Olivier wrote:

> > Symlink approach has the same advantages, and no disadvantages you
> > mention (unusable outside GConf-linked applications).
> >
> >    
>
> Actually, the symlink approach has some drawbacks that the gconf
> solution doesn't have:
> - symlinks will have an arrow icon in Nautilus, which is not very
> nice-looking.
> - If the user makes a search (for example using gnome-search-tool), and
> finds some files in ~/.folders/documents, won't she be surprised to find
> the file here instead of ~/Documentos ? She might even think that this
> is a lost copy, and just delete it, thus losing the documents and having
> a broken link (~/Documentos will point to the missing
> ~/.folders/documents).
> - More importantly, if you remove a symlink, the content of the real
> folder remains, and in the case of ~/Documents it can be a lot of data.
>  
This is not a disadvantage of the scheme Alex described.  The symlink 
would be from ~/.folders/documents to ~/Documentos, so the files would 
really be in the user-visible folder, and they would not see a symlink 
arrow emblem.

Like the gconf solution, it isn't clear what a script should do if the 
~/.folders/XXXX symlink or gconf key is missing though.

James.

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