User directories integration - request for help

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:35 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Again providing defaults for these applications doesn't take away your 
> > ability to customize anything. We have continued to adopt several ideas 
> > from other operating systems if that makes sense and that is a good thing.
> 
> It seems like those folders are created automatically when user logs in.
> That's what I dislike. If they are defaults for 'save' actions in every
> apps, fine. If they are created and used automatically, I think it isn't
> right.

This would limit the use of these dirs to "automatic setting of default
dir" only, and only for applications that use a specific version of the
fileselector with specific APIs. It won't e.g. let you to have nice
default bookmarks, nor would it work instantly with all applications.

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