Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:24 +0000, Nielsen wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > The gconf approach has essentially the same problems as the symlink
> > approach, though in both cases if you declare that the only supported
> > access mechanism is to call a g_get_directory (G_DIRECTORY_DESKTOP) then
> > it's a little bit more encapsulated and that could be nicer.
> 
> FWIW, this is semantically identical to the Windows 
> SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, SHGetSpecialFolderPath (and related) calls.

And we all know how well those work...