On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 19:35, Lee Willis wrote: > There was some discussion recently on the Muine[1] development list > about standard locations for files for a user, much like windows has "My > Documents/My Music", and "My Document/My Pictures". The closest I can > find to anything representing this would be the Basedir spec - > http://freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec/0.6/. > > This doesn't however go as far as I think would be useful in the case we > were originally considering, specifically the creation of standard > directories for: > > - Music storage > - Playlist storage > > These could then be used as the default import location for music > players, the default save path by music rippers, and per mime-type > default save locations when downloading content in browsers etc. > > The thread which originally sparked this off was on the muine list at > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/muine-list/2004-February/msg00046.html. > > I'd be interested in any feedback that anyone of this list has, > particularly about whether this is a good idea, and how the > implementation might work. This has been hashed out on GNOME mailing lists before. The big problem is that directory names aren't localisable, so promoting that as a "standard" is a problem for users of different locales. Since we don't have a localisable file system (crack alert!), I think this sort of thing should be globally desktop configurable in some way rather than having a static default. How to do this, I'm not sure. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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