Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

jrb@redhat.com wrote:
> > The directory hierarchy that is visible in the file manager
> > application has several directories with spaces in them: My Documents,
> > My Sounds and Spread Sheets.  Considering that spaces in filenames may
> > be chief in a range of silly ideas that have come out of MicroSoft I
> > would hope that the gnome project would not follow this lead.

> I personally don't see anything terribly wrong with spaces in filenames,
> and I would hardly call them a MicroSoft invention, nevertheless, those
> directories were created on the fly as part of a demo here at the labs, and
> are not part of any GNOME standard.

It will be hard to break Mac and Win users of the spaces-in-filenames
habit, and we certainly want to get those users running GNOME instead
of some other OS :)

	Jeff