Re: [PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > I talked with people on #interface last week and we thought it might be
> > good to have some "GNOME Filesystem Standard" for $HOME: 
> >
> >       $HOME
> >          `---- Desktop/  <- grumble, but you know me :)
> >          `---- Documents/
> >                   `---- Images/
> >                   `---- Videos/
> >                   `---- Music/
> >                   `---- Downloads/
> >          `---- Programs/
> >                   `---- Evolution/
> >                   `---- Nautilus/
>
> I agree completely, love the idea, fully, and totally.  
>
> But here is a problem for you:
>
>       How do you make that work in other languages other than
>       English?
>
> Possible solutions:
>
>       1. Create the directories with their english names, show them
>            with english names on the file system view, but on the
>            `shortcuts' on file save/open dialogs use the translated
>            versions.
>
>       2. Put everything in a well known location ~/GNOME, or
>            ~/HOST or something, and make symlinks from ~/Programas
>            into ~/HOST/Programs.  Create as many symlinks on the home
>            directory as the user logs in as.  Create "virtual" directories for
>            them (from Nautilus perspective, and show those on the
>            standard dialogs).
>
>       3. Ignore the problem, force everyone into using english
>
>       4. Use `Unix' names for the various elements, and have "user
>          names" which are shown into a few applications (file
>          dialogs, file manager virtual directories).
>
>          ~/docs       Shown as _("Documents")
>          ~/bin        Shown as _("Programs")
>          ~/packages   Shown as _("Software")
>          ~/desktop    Shown as _("Desktop")

Option "4" sucks less. I really do not want to type rm -f ~/Programs/*
to free my disk space ;-), rm -f ~/bin/* is more friendly to my
fingers.

                                                                Pavel
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