Re: Proposal: Create a standard default location for pictures

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:05, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 19:53, Thomas Lunde wrote:
> > The problem:
> > There is no default location within each user's $HOME for pictures from
> > digital cameras.
> > 
> > The solution for GNOME specifically:
> > Use GConf to provide a default location. (more detail below)
> 
> 	I really don't mean to be harsh, but unless you actually have a patch
> or some real way of moving this proposal forward, I think we're pretty
> clear that GNOME developers/contributors want to keep this list clear of
> this sort of discussion. They typically start a huge thread, go on for
> ever, with none of the relevant developers involved and nothing happens.
> It just adds noise. See:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-May/msg00231.html
> 
> 	Please don't continue the discussion here.

This email is about a development issue for the desktop which affects
application interoperability.  The email is a well-reasoned and concrete
proposal.  You can't get much more concrete short of attaching a patch.

It would seem that nothing is actually on-topic here.

--
Shaun