[Mageia-dev] Alpha-1 Comments

Tue Mar 15 18:45:44 CET 2011

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:33:35 +0100, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+
+> Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 01:12 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit :
+> 
+> > And, now that you are building a new distro, perhaps the HOME layout could be changed.
+> > Nowadays:
+> > 
+> > Documents Templates Pictures Videos Music ....
+> > 
+> > Perhaps:
+> > 
+> > Documents Documents/Templates Media/Image Media/Video Media/Music
+> > 
+> > so in your ~home you just see 'Documents' and 'Media'. Just XDG default settings.
+> 
+> We follow the xdg standard :
+> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
+> 
+> So if you want change, you should push them there first.
+> 
+
+You can do whatever you think is correct, but changing locations is not going
+against the standard. The standard just says how to set and query the location
+for (for example) the Documents folder in a standard way.
+
+Since long time ago I use a .config/user-dirs.dirs like this:
+
+# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
+# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
+# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
+# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
+# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
+# absolute path. No other format is supported.
+#
+XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.desktop-lnx"
+XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/doc"
+XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/doc/templates"
+XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/media/music"
+XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/media/image"
+XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/media/video"
+XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/pub"
+XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/in"
+
+I don't like seeing the Desktop folder in my home, and I have all media
+in one folder so it can be symlinked to a global media folder for all family
+or mounted remotely. And everything works as should.
+
+You even have this in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults:
+
+# Another alternative is:
+#MUSIC=Documents/Music
+#PICTURES=Documents/Pictures
+#VIDEOS=Documents/Videos
+
+So perhaps a sane setting (no so unix-ish as mine) could be:
+
+DESKTOP=.Desktop
+DOCUMENTS=Documents
+TEMPLATES=Documents/Templates
+MUSIC=Media/Music
+PICTURES=Media/Pictures
+VIDEOS=Media/Videos
+PUBLICSHARE=Public
+DOWNLOAD=Downloads
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \               Software is like sex:
+                                         \         It's better when it's free
+