Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

[Mikael Hermansson <mikeh bahnhof se>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero 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.
> 
> I hope so... cos some names look silly. My Foo, My Bar... My Ego (Lego?). >:]
> 
> Spaces are not bad, just choose decent names, short but descriptive. Foo and
> Bar. If we can get no spaces by default, better (surely there is a place
> where Gnome will run, but spaces will cause havoc). Be able to use, not be
> forced. Let user choose to meet with " " problems, not all of us. ;]

I must agree with you. We dont need spaces at default...
Spaces WILL give problems. So gnome should avoid it as mush as possible...


/MikeH