Re: [Usability] Languages and Directories

["Stéphane Raimbault" <stephane raimbault gmail com>]

2007/4/17, Thilo Pfennig <thilopfennig foresightlinux org>:
> I am not sure which this is the right list so I wrote to usability and i18n.
>
> I think we have an issue with application defaults directories. Some
> applications always use english directory names. The problem with that
> is that the user might have created a mudic directory with a name in
> his native language and that then each new installed application that
> has a fixed default path writes to the english directory.
>
> So I think instead of including default paths I like to suggest that
> GNOME introduces variables that define a default folder that can be
> translated.
>
> So maybe the default Music folder becomes "$HOME/Music", but that this
> is already changed on first log in if the users has another default
> language and so this variable in gconf is replaced by a localized
> alternative.
>
> Further I suggest that the user can reconfig the paths (maybe even
> change this to a network path) and that applications are encouraged to
> respect those paths instead of using a default (english) folder.
>
> A common solution is to make a link from "Music" to another localized
> folder, but this solution rather defines english as the main language.
>  I also think that a changeable variable can be much more flexible and
> also allows sharing of location information between applications (if
> they want it). So this should be similar to the network proxy config
> or gnome-volume-properties. It just makes no sense to have every
> single app control a shared destination.
>
> A translated directory would make GNOME look much more user friendly and usable.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Thilo
> --
> Thilo Pfennig
> http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R
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You're right!
Already in progress:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-February/msg00140.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-February/thread.html#9343

Regards,
Stéphane