Polishing stuff - gnome-filesystem package

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 17:11:18 UTC 2007


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 17:41 +0100, dragoran wrote:
>   
>> Alexander Larsson wrote:
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>   
>>> How could windows users be used to it? Windows translates it.
>>> Unless of course you run an english Windows, but nobody is forcing you
>>> to use any locale but english in that case.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I am using a german windows on one of my boxes and it uses "Desktop" 
>> (maybe other windows versions are translated; I only used english and 
>> german where it is Desktop)
>> German:
>> Dokumente und Einstellungen/<user>/Desktop
>>     
>
> Hmmm, in swedish it is translated. 
>
> A common problem with the translated-names-on-disk approach is that some
> applications don't use the correct win32 api to locate these
> directories, but instead just use the english names.  Maybe this is what
> happened to you, or maybe its different in different locales.
>
>   
no in german it always was desktop on all windows installs since 95.
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