Polishing stuff - gnome-filesystem package

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:43 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> > Given the F7 schedule was pushed back one month I thought perhaps we
> > could spend this time on polishing stuff.
> ...
> > So someone last week brought forward the idea of a gnome-filesystem
> > package that put files in /etc/skel. This package would provide
> > 
> >  /etc/skel/Documents
> >            Downloads
> >            Music
> >            Pictures
> >            Public
> 
> Good stuff, I was thinking of adding similar/dup items to
> kde-filesystem.  Maybe we can make a generic userdir/skel package for
> this kind of thing.  Reviewers might get picky of 2 pkgs (try to) own
> the same dirs (though I don't think it necessarily a problem in this case).

What about having a co-maintained desktop-filesystem package with
desktop-filesystem-gnome and desktop-filesystem-kde sub packages?
(possibly other sub packages for e.g. xfce) 

That would provide the various desktop maintainers with a natural way of
keeping abreast of changes to the user directory layouts. Also the docs
for how packages should integrate would live in the main desktop-
filesystem package and our packaging guidelines would point to that.

      David