Re: Special folders in gnome

[Mark Rosenstand <mark borkware net>]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:59 +0100, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> fre 2006-01-13 klockan 14:10 +0000 skrev Richard Hughes:
> 
> > If the person uses a shell script, or KDE program, and it comes up
> > with /Photos rather than %translation%, then the user should understand
> > it's because they are not using a GNOME program.
> > 
> > Users are not stupid, but that is just my point of view.
> 
> No, users are not stupid. But not all people are interested in finding
> out if firefox is a gnome app or not. My mom doen't have a clue about
> what gnome is and that firefox is not a gnome app. And my mom is not
> stupid, she just doesn't care.
> She is also not very good at english so I'd be surprised if she would
> realize that Templates is the same folder as "Mallar" but just not
> translated.

Then don't install Firefox on her computer and use a GNOME application
instead since they tend to pay more detail to i18n :-)

Maybe this is fd.o material. Or maybe it's already possible with current
fd.o standards?