Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 17.09.2007 13:54, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 21:22 +0100, Charlie Brej wrote:
> > 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?

How about "File Management"? Looks much more natural to me.

> > 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

For querying them, but for changing them?

Jens