On søn, 2007-05-06 at 20:43 +0200, Rubin wrote: > Hi people, > > I have searched the mailinglist back to 25-01-2007 using the keywords > "public folder", "templates folder", "downloads folder" "creating > directories", "creating folders", "nautilus directories" and a few other > combinations and I am a little surprised I didn't find any previous > posting about the following (ie. I tried to avoid getting a > re-discussion about this): > > Why does gnome/nautilus/vfs(?) create three directories in my home > directory by default (using F7t4)? I _really_ dislike this behaviour. I > can't find any knobs that would allow me to turn this off or _at least_ > allow me to change the folders they point to (Downloads, Public and > Templates). > > I don't know about anyone else but I find it hard to imagine that anyone > actually likes this behaviour; after all, who is not annoyed like hell > about directories like "My eBooks", "My Pictures", "My Music", etc that > incessantly re-create themselves in your home directory on some other > operating system whose name I shall not mention? It is _my_ home > directory, not some scratchpad for badly designed software, excuse the > venom. > > So, long story short: If it has been discussed before, my humble > apologies. If it has to be in there due to upstream changes, then where > are the knobs? Can I turn it off? sounds like the xdg-user-dirs freedesktop.org spec implementation, one of the great new features in F7 - it provides per session translated directories. Great stuff, will likely be a blessed part of GNOME 2.20 at least a lot of the applications now have support for it. - David Nielsen
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