Re: User directories integration - request for help

["Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

Le Lun 19 mars 2007 11:35, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:53 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>
>> > There are other uses too, like
>> > default bookmarks (in file manager, file selector, etc).
>>
>> They could create the directory when the user click on the icon?
>
> I don't think this is largely different from creating them at login.
> Many dirs will be created at first login anyway (Desktop, Templates,
> maybe Public),

Why?

> and others will be created as you go. Seems very similar
> to the create-at-login approach except the code needs to be duplicated
> all over the place and the homedirectory is slowly modified over time
> instead of just once.

The "slowly modified over time" has the nice property of walking the user
through directory creation progressively, when he's interested in related
stuff instead of dumping a big hierarchy he'll dismiss as irrelevant (and
ignore from now on)

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Nicolas Mailhot