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

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:21:50 +1100
> From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: My Folders [Re: Special folders in gnome]
>
> <quote who="Alan Horkan">
>
> > 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/
>
> They're also dropping the way they have everything rooted on "My Documents",

Got any more information on why exactly they decided to do this?

Getting at the user data folder in Windows is quite a bit more convoluted
than in Gnome because the file manager is rooted at "My Computer" where as
Gnome has a prominant link to the Users Home (and ~ works in various
places too).

> so Vista will actually look much more like how we set up GNOME *now*. ie...
>
>   /home/jdub/
>     Documents/
>     Photos/
>     Music/

(Photos is an abbreviation, albeit a very common one.  Unless you have
very specific reasons for using it Pictures seems like a safer and more
generic term.  It wasn't an incidental choice.)

> ... and so on. I suggest we stick with this layout, and push it towards a
> default policy.

Either way it will be great to finally have a few good defaults to help
encourage beginners to think about organising their files a little bit
more (and not use Desktop/Documents as a dumping ground, like i tend to do
leaving me with a big mess of files I'm forced to sort out later).

- Alan H.