[SOLVED] User-visible directories

[Jeff Waugh]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:12 -0300, F?bio Mendes wrote:
> Are there any plans for suggesting default user's directories a la
> windows' "My Documents", "My Shared Folder" etc?

Yes, there are a number of directories that ought to be created by
default, but there has been some disagreement as to how (ie. created by
Nautilus or put in /etc/skel). I'm sure we'll have it sorted out before
the final WartyWarthog release. :-)

- Jeff

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[Fábio Mendes]

Are there any plans for suggesting default user's directories a la
windows' "My Documents", "My Shared Folder" etc? Of course I'm not
suggesting we should use the same (lame) names and we should not enforce
their usage (if the user deletes them for he/she dislike "My downloaded
files", they should not reapear magically the next login). It will make
sense if the packages are preconfigured to spit files in sane locations,
for example, sound-juicer, nicotine and giFToxic should all be
preconfigured to use $HOME/Music/ or $HOME/Multimedia/ to save music
files and rhythmbox should scan this directory by default.

The solution should be portable, and programs should not misfunction if
those directories do not exist. My suggestion is to make, for example a
directory $HOME/.Music and a link $HOME/Music --> $HOME/.Music, so the
user can easyly modify the name of the visible directory and still
keeping things working. It should make localization easier too. The
problem will be that a link emblem will appear. This is both annoying
and confusing, can we make it disappear? Other solution would be using
enviroment variables, but it seems a little bloated design IMHO and is
not so portable. I don't know how Gnome handles this for the 'Desktop'
and 'Documents' folders, but it's probably a solution that worths
looking at.

Other candidates are Downloads, Images, Shared Files (point
to /home/Shared ??), maybe a personal bin directory and others.

Thanks for your attention,
-Fabio