Re: [SPAM:1.4] Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:22 +0100, Charlie Brej wrote:
> Denis Washington wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > With GNOME 2.20 being in hard code freeze now, I believe it may be time
>  > to think about what could be done for gnome-control-center 2.20. In my
>  > opinion, we should continue the merging work started for 2.20 (in form
>  > of the "Appearance" capplet).
> 
> After listening to a friend whining endlessly about gnome making Desktop, 
> Download, Templates... directories without asking him, I would like to propose 
> adding an option of choosing these default directories. Their locations are kept 
> in the file: ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . Before I do any work on this I would 
> like to check:
> 
> a: if this is a reasonable plan (also if an app already exists)
> b: where the best place to put it would be
> (perhaps in the preferred applications capplet)
>
hmm, seems the most fitted to contain it, but not sure if it makes sense
there. Could you please provide a mockup to integrate it in the
preferred apps capplet?

> c: if anyone has opinions as to how to go about it
> (either edit the file directly or go via the xdg-user-dirs-update shell call)
>
we have an PI for dealing with xdg-user-dirs in Glib, so we'd better use
that
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>