Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:33 +1030, Tim wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 08:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> And, to boot, someone also thought is was a good idea to name files >>> with uppercase names in an O/S that is case sensitive. :-( >>> >> Yeah! :-\ >> >> I'm getting a bit sick of this following the worst examples set (by >> Microsoft). We even see moronically stupid Windows-like advice about >> sticking all your files inside a documents directory, then sub-dividing >> that into other things (documents/downloads, documents/music, etc.). >> Geez, "documents" is not a substitute for data, or simply files. If >> it's not a "document" it's NOT a bloody document. >> > ---- > Considering that knowledgeable users will be able to set things up as > they choose then the consideration for the less knowledgeable users or > those moving from the other OS's can find things more easily or possibly > back up their needed files this hardly seems to be something to get all > worked up about. When programs look for documents in the same consistent > folder or want to save documents in the same consistent folder it's hard > to argue with the logic of this. > > Yes, I suppose it makes perfect sense for Gimp to use the settings in ~/.confg/user-dirs.dirs that contains: XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" and by default go to the "$HOME/Documents" directory. And since XDG seems as if it may becoming the method to define "preferred" locations and since "less knowledgeable" users are prone to defaulting to GUIs it is a good thing that there is a "settings" menu item called something like "Preferred Locations" which brings up a GUI that guides you through changing the settings contained in ~/.confg/user-dirs.dirs. -- Wormwood : Calvin, how about you? Calvin : Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused. Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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