Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Sul, 2004-12-12 at 15:04, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 17:30 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Which I haven't claimed. It needs to be consistent and logical with all
> > the user space views. That works for $HOME. It can work for $DESKTOP. In
> > fact since home as desktop does work we have _proof_ because in that
> > mode $HOME is $DESKTOP.
> 
> You seem a bit obsessed with the desktop dir. Do you also want
> environment variables for templates, shared files, documents, downloads,
> photos and the other directories we probably want to add?

That is why I proposed that if we use scripts we allow for several, yes.
I would rather they were gconf keys and a simple wrapper fdo app that
reported where the directories were. Havoc seems agains that but thought
environment was practical. Thus I proposed something we could start with
environmnt and improve.