User directories integration - request for help

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:51 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > It very much does. All applications using the gtk file selector will
> > have some default folders as file selector bookmars, and *all*
> > applications get translated filenames for common directories.
> 
> And all other applications, such as gui-less apps will be broken.

How are they broken? The only thing I can see that is possible to break
is if some application hardcodes ~/Desktop. Of course, thats already
broken since gnome has a config option to use $HOME as desktop and KDE
has a general config option for where to put the desktop directory.

> Related to this: Explain who all this is supposed without any
> login-manager (plain su -l without running any GUI)

If you don't log in through a gui then xdg-user-dirs-update won't be run
(unless you manually run it). This is not a problem and shouldn't affect
anything (except you won't get the default dirs if you never run it).
Everything should keep working as it is right now.

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