Re: My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome]

[HC Brugmans <hcbrugmans gmail com>]

Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:15:19 +0100
> > From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>
> > To: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
> > Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Special folders in gnome
> >
> > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> >
> > > > - Not translate folder names in filesystem
> > > > - Translate them in File selector and Nautilus bookmarks
> >
> > > I'm still seeing an inconsistency in the file browser. I think they
> > > should be translated there too and not displayed as english folder (same
> > > as Apple).
> >
> > We already have a (maybe/nearly) working implementation in current
> > GNOME, which already displays translated names in both Nautilus and file
> > selector:
> >
> > cat >Pictures.directory <<EOF
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=My Pictures
>
>
>      ^^^^^^^
>
> Microsoft have finally [1] said they will drop the patronising "my"
> prefix.  I hope you were using it only for example.
>
> I'd much prefer if we could have
> ~/Documents/
>     /Templates/
>     /Pictures/
>     /Videos/
>     ...
>     ...
>     ...
>     (keep it simple first, but if you wanted more later
>     we could also have folders like:
>      /Web Pages/
>      /Spreadsheets/
>      /Slideshows/
>      etc.)
>
> I believe keeping these folders in the Documents folder will help those
> who wish to keep their HOMEDIR relatively tidy and uncluttered.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
>
> [1] Microsoft has decided to drop the "my" prefixes for Longhorn
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/01/2043242
>
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Please, Please, Please don't presume you can come up with a way that 
even the majority of users will like to organise their data.

I agree that ~/Music and such might be useful, but I'd personally rather 
see ~/media/music, (and ~/media/photos, tv, movies, ebooks etc)
~/Documents/Slideshows/ for me would be useless, for one, since I prefer 
to have things like ~/documents/school/05-06/$subject/lectures/

My mother uses a default archiving scheme based on file format, which 
means that she will have her administration over the year spread into 
half a dozen folders. She likes it that way. I could absolutely not work 
that way.
Don't force either her or me to change my prefered way of working to 
enjoy goodness.

My father uses caps in every folder and file, I hate caps in filenames 
whereever for whatever reason, these are the kind of differences you'll 
run into.

Providing a default is ok, but allow this to be changed, renamed, 
reorganised and adjusted to user preferences.

-Hidde