Re: RFC: Common desktop-wide paths

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Llu, 2004-10-04 at 11:03, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Why not just do it as they seem to do in Mac OSX, the actual directory 
> names on disk are in English and then translated in Nautilus only. So if 
> you access your home directory by a powertool such as the terminal you 
> go to ~/Desktop no matter if it's named Skrivbord (Swedish) in Nautilus.

And KDE, and openoffice and mozilla, and over NFS to other system types,
and xfce. No that one really is ugly and asking for confused users. Even
renaming them in some future gnome-language tool would be preferable
(and might be sensible anyway).