Re: Special folders in gnome

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

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.
> 

Yes, any spec would need to be supported by the major players. If GNOME
and KDE follow it, there's no reason to think that Firefox and
OpenOffice wouldn't. And Firefox uses GTK+ anyway, so they'd get a lot
for free.

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