RFE: User-Understandable Default folders in Home Directory

[Stewart Smith]

a bit like what OSX has, i've been thinking that a set of default
folders (with some cool icons) could help users a bit.

I've put this up at :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129564

simply so it's kinda 1/2 officially tracked, and in the future, people
with the same idea can (easily) find some track of discussion....

I propose adding the following to the /etc/skel for new users, with
funky icons on the folders to help increasing the clarity of where
things are and some hints on helping them organise things.

Note that with the introduction of things like ~/Contacts/, ~/Mail/
and ~/Settings, this gives the user a clear picture of where things
are, and what things are important to back up (if they so choose).

Some users may just see their mail as important, and not care about
contacts or music. Others may see Contacts, Mail, Settings and
Documents as important and can just (easily! with nautilus-cd-burner)
write these to CD for backup.

~/Contacts - where evolution stores contacts, with human-readable file
names (e.g. "Firstname Lastname.vcf" or something).
~/Desktop - same as it is now, the contents of the users desktop.
~/Documents - a suggested location for documents (and the default save
location for applications such as OpenOffice)
~/Mail - where Evolution stores it's mail.
~/Movies - for the kick-ass iMovie type thing that we so need.
~/Music - Music Player's place to put music!
~/Photos - Gthumb's place to go, and the digital camera tool!
~/Web Pages - ==public_html (and shared by apache, if installed).

I have no real expectation taht this will make Core3 in any complete
way, but is a good talking point and UI suggestion. This will make it
easier for users.
-- 
Stewart Smith (stewart at flamingspork.com)
http://www.flamingspork.com/

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