Re: Polishing stuff - gnome-filesystem package

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:55 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, David Nielsen wrote:
> > søn, 18 02 2007 kl. 12:34 -0500, skrev David Zeuthen:
> >>
> >> Also, even if we don't solve problem 3. until Fedora 8 I still think we
> >> should do this. It's not like apps aren't hardcoding folders today..
> >
> > Some of them are.. f-spot for one hardcodes ~/Photos much to my
> > annoyance because I have a setup entirely in Danish and it makes kittens
> > cry every time I see that one folder.. please think of the kittens.
> 
> Some apps hardcoding folder names doesn't make it a good idea that should 
> be copied everywhere.

+1

If apps would like to open certain directories for e.g. photos, this
could easily be defined as a /desktop/gnome/foldernames/photos gconf
key. This would let us we-have-lived-well-with-this-layout-for-years
types point these apps to the directories we use.

Nils
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