What is templates for?  And what is special about Public - by default users can read each other's home directories anyway.  If the default global read for users is turned off then I can understand why you would have a public folder - otherwise unless it means there is global write access to the folder I'm not sure why it's there. <div>On 6/18/07, Sebastien Bacher <<a href="mailto:seb128@ubuntu.com">seb128@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>