Using xdg-user-dirs for the gutsy desktop

Hilton Gibson hgibson at sun.ac.za
Tue Jun 19 09:53:00 BST 2007


On Monday 18 June 2007 19:16:33 Brian Murray wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:52:14PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The gutsy desktop can use xdg-user-dirs and will start depending on it
> > soon, the tool description is:
> >
> > "xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage "well known" user directories
> >  like the desktop folder and the music folder. It also handles
> >  localization (i.e. translation) of the filenames.
> >  .
> >  The way it works is that xdg-user-dirs-update is run very early in the
> >  login phase. This program reads a configuration file, and a set of
> >  default directories. It then creates localized versions of these
> >  directories in the users home directory and sets up a config file in
> >  $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/user-dirs.dirs (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to
> >  ~/.config) that applications can read to find these directories."
> >
> >
> > The default set of directory is:
> >
> > "DESKTOP=Desktop
> > DOWNLOAD=Download
> > TEMPLATES=Templates
> > PUBLICSHARE=Public
> > DOCUMENTS=Documents
> > MUSIC=Music
> > PICTURES=Pictures
> > VIDEOS=Videos"
> >
> >
> > The desktop applications make use of it to know what directory to use.
> >
> > Does anyone has concern about the list of directory or does it look ok
> > to everybody?
>
> Most of the directory names are pluralized but the "DOWNLOAD" directory
> is not.  I would prefer that it was the same as the rest and became
> "Downloads".
>
> Thanks,

Does MUSIC become SONGS ?
And what about music videos ?
Perhaps MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS should simply be put in MEDIA ?
It would make all the translations a lot simpler.


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