On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:45 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 19:29 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > No. Just go read xdg-list archives if you are interested in the > > > arguments. > > Frankly speaking, I am not interested in arguing, I wanted to hear > > yours, > > I think the point was that the arguments are already on that list where, > for the record, highly respected GNOME, KDE, XFCE developers already > reviewed this without objections. Well, I am long enough into this business to have an opinion on my own. > > because I for one find "i18n'ed" dirs utterly stupid. > > You are entitled to your opinion as is anyone here. Keep in mind it's > just not constructive, nor is it useful, to rehash discussions here > especially when people like you labels something as "utterly stupid" Yes, I find this "utterly stupid" because I fail to see any problem this solves and only see "problems this introduces". I am still missing an answer from any of these highly respected GUI devs telling me which USER problem they are solving. The only argument I can imagine is: "Intuition of dirnames" - What they miss: * This had not been an issue to Linux/Unix users ever since Linux/Unix-GUIs exists. * This might only be an issue to Windows users, who expect Linux/Unix to mimic Windows. Technically, all this does is introducing another layer of complexity. > instead of, say, doing his homework and reading the discussions that > already took place in a much better forum e.g. xdg-list. Quite simple, I dislike this (IMO completely useless mal-) feature they want to introduce. I am inclined to consider this to be a "cargo-cult", as somebody recently named such Linux developments on another Fedora list. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
