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

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Alexander Skwar wrote:

> So sprach Tuomas Kuosmanen am Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:46:37PM +0300:
>
> > > However, surely the locations need to be accessible from any app and not
> > > just from those that use gconf?
> > Yep, the folder would be in your homedir in any case. Or somewhere you
> > changet it yourself (if there is some capplet to set them)
>
> Well, but how should non-GConf programs find out the name/location of a
> directory?  I might assume that non-GConf programs will look for
> ~/Documents, but how should they know that I much rather like this to be
> "~/Meine Dokumente"?  Ie. the directory name is
>
> a) Not the english default
> b) Not a plain translated dirctory name (this would have been ~/Dokumente)
>
> But I suppose that there's nothing that can be done about, is there?
>
> Alexander Skwar

I would have the doorman set up the locale specific directories on first 
run.  If at any time after, you wish to change locale, the control 
center can make a symlink to it.  It would have to manage symlinks so 
you don't get a gazillion of them like was already mentioned.  At the 
most you'd have one.

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