Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

["Martin Meyer" <elreydetodo gmail com>]

Here a (possibly bad) idea for setting up the default locations for
photos and music:

Use a gconf key to specify the current locations of the Photos and
Music places. The default directories could be localized versions of
~/Music and ~/Photos (my preference), and there could be a control
panel applet to chage this. Seems like it might fit into Preferred
Applications somehow. Also, when you change the locale of Gnome, offer
to rename those directories to the new localized name.

Pros:
* Windows uses a registry key to point to where My Document is
already, so it's not an unheardof technique.
* If the default locale of the system isn't english on the first
statup of gnome then there would be a localized directory name by
default.
* Directory names could change with locale

Cons/questions:
* Code in multiple places to make sure directory names are migrated
when locale is changed.
* Can gconf key values default to some localizable string?
* Can places/bookmarks point to a value stored in a gconf key?

Martin

On 2/14/07, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ross Burton wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > I was also surprised why them people on this thread were so concerned
> > > by Music and whatever folders they want to store the media in when you
> > > can just index the whole thing, and thanks for mentioning that
> > > fabulous Tracker of things. I wouldn't have explained better why an
> > > indexer would be so much better than yet-more-standards where to put
> > > media in (and I think that Sound Juicer patch should be thrown far
> > > away).
>
> > This isn't a discussion about indexing. Indexing is great, we all know
> > that.  This is a discussion about how to get hold of pre-defined
> > locations (like where the user wants their photos, their music, their
> > documents).
>
> Nicely put.
>
> > > I always found the Microsoft way of naming things ridiculous (My
> > > Documents, Program Files), and I surely won't name my music directory
> > > the ugly Music, rather 'music' or 'sounds' or whatever else but Music.
> >
> > $ ls -d */
> > Archives/  Documents/  Maildir/  Pictures/     public_html/  Templates/
> > bin/       Local/      Mess/     Programming/  Music/        WebSites/
> >
> > I must be ridiculous.
> >
> > You are marking youself as a hard-core terminal geek by saying that
> > "music" is beautiful but "Music" is ugly.  Most "normal" (read:
> > non-geeks) people capitalise these directories.  I'm a geek but I like
> > them to be uppercase as they are proper nouns, effectively.
>
> I thought real geeks could all touch-type at ludicrous speeds and were
> unafraid of capital letters?  Dont "real geeks" use directory names
> starting with capitals and file names starting with lowercase? (or some
> other highly elaborate naming scheme. I'll stop before this turns in to a
> Four Yorkshiremen parody)
> ;P
>
> --
> Alan
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