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Re: Polishing stuff - gnome-filesystem package



On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Nils Philippsen wrote:

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.

Amen. Having a central place to tell the system "my photo/music/etc collection is here" and have all the relevant applications honor that would actually be very nice. Assuming there's a way to set them through application preferences or such, having to resort to gconf-editor to tune such things is not ok :)

Much like having a central place to configure http proxy would be nice (would be, because major applications like firefox don't honor gnome settings :-/ )

	- Panu -


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