RFE: User-Understandable Default folders in Home Directory

[Sindre Pedersen Bjordal]

tir, 10.08.2004 kl. 16.57 skrev 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.

I love this idea. It was proposed for in an article I read somewhere
some time ago, but I can't locate it. What struck me then, and strikes
me now is: What about the non-english users? Sure, having the names of
the the folder internationalized shouldn't prove that difficult, but how
do we make rhythmbox or Evolution look in the internationalized folders?

-- 
Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish at fedoraforum.org>
www.fedoraforum.org
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