RFE: User-Understandable Default folders in Home Directory

[Mark Drago]

> > ~/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 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?

The location of these folders could be stored in gconf.  That way we can
internationalize the real names of the folders and also allow an
advanced user to store their music, photos, and whatever else wherever
they want.  I tend to store all of my music in ~/data/Music, and it
would be nice to relocate the folder that way.

--Mark Drago
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