Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 08:40 +0100, Olivier Cort�wrote:
> Sorry if i talk about something which has been abandonned, i don't
> recall it. Feel free to blow me up if it is the case.
> I read some times ago another proposal which could lead to a freedesktop
> standard, and which i like a lot, i find it quite elegant :
> 
> create a gconf-key, say "/desktop/folders/desktop_dir" -> "~/Skrivbord",
> and make nautilus / GtkFileChooser / FileChooserButton use it. (you can
> create the same for "/desktop/folders/music_dir" (for ryhtmnbox and al),
> "images_dir" (gthumb, gimp and al), etc.

This proposal is identical to the symlink one except it forces you to
link to gconf and call c functions. I fail to see the point of it.