Re: [Usability]Re: The messy world of applications files

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 17:12, Daniel F Moisset wrote:
> T C Witte phys uu nl wrote:
>     I completely agree with you. I think these sorts of things should
>     really be a part of the LSB.
>     Ideally, all applications should follow a certain amount of
>     structure. e.g.:
>     
>         ~/app/data/<app-name>/...
>         ~/app/customisation/<ap-name>/...
>         ~/app/tmp/<app-name>/...
>     I would suggest something like this:
>     
>          ~/config/<app-name>/...
>     For all settings, preferences (things that you can miss).
>     
>          ~/tmp/<app-name>/...
>     For all caches (with possibility of linking it to /tmp/<user-name>).
>     Possibly ~/.tmp (it's not something users have to deal with, I
>     guess).
>     
>          ~/data/<app-name>/...
>     Like you suggested.
>     
>     The names could be different ('My Settings', 'Temporary Data', 'My
>     Documents'?)
> 
> I don't know if this discussion goes here or somewhere related to the
> LSB. But the person who implements something like this should take care
> of making it appropiate for i18n.

Just remember there are a lot of people out there that use their home
directory as their desktop with Nautilus. So adding even more
non-dotfiles that dont make sense to the user is not good.

Having the "Documents", "Pictures" and "Music" or whatever common
folders for user files would be useful though, so that file selectors
would have shortcuts for these as well. And nice for new users as a
suggestion on where to store their files.

But just keep config stuff in a .dot-directory, so they do not pop up on
the desktop. One shouldnt poke around there with Nautilus anyway.

Tuomas

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