[RFC] "Documents Folder" icon in "system:/"

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 12:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 08 August 2005 10:07, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >> Drive C My Documents My Music My Pictures My Video
> >>
> >>
> >> HOME Files Documents Music Photos Video <ETC.>
> >
> > look at the two hierarchies. one starts with C:/
>
> No, WINE (default) starts with a folder named: "Drive C".

*counts to 10, takes deep breaths* you're right. you wrote Drive C. i wrote 
C:/.

now let's move on to things that might actually matter ...

> > and one with $HOME. $HOME _is_ "My Documents". we also stuff settings
> > in there as well, but hide them.
>
> I hate to go over the same ground again but:
>
> 1.  According to what I got from Google:
>
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_mydocs.htm
>
> <<
> By default, the target or actual location of the My Documents folder is
> C :\Documents and Settings\ user name \My Documents, where C is the
> drive in which Windows is installed ... .
>
>
> This clearly indicates that you are mistaken.  This corresponds exactly
> to what I am suggesting:
>
> 	/home/<user_name>/Files

$HOME == My Documents. what you are suggesting would be the windows equivalent 
of "C :\Documents and Settings\ user name \My Documents\My Documents" .. 

>
> I don't have Windows XP so I can't check to see that it is correct.
>
> 2.  Everything put in the HOME folder is NOT hidden.
>
> For example: CrossOver Office adds: "cxoffice", KDE adds "Desktop"

Desktop makes sense since those are user visible items that they specifically 
place in that location. i don't know what's in cxoffice, but if it's not 
something the user interacts with it's broken. the longer we work around 
these bugs in the handful of programs that have them, the longer we will have 
a $HOME that is misused.

we fixed kmail in 3.4. that took a lot of effort and discussion, but it got 
done. so it can happen. 

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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