[SPAM:1.4] Free desktop default directories

[Charlie Brej-4]

I would like to add somewhere an option to choose the free-desktop default
directory locations (Desktop/Videos/Downloads...). The values of these are kept
in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . I'm not sure where precisely would be a reasonable
place to put these options.

One method would be to have a preferences page allowing a user to set any of the
directories (currently:DESKTOP, DOWNLOAD, TEMPLATES, PUBLICSHARE, DOCUMENTS,
MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS).

Another way would be to have a menu option of "make this my music directory".

Yet another would be to put it somewhere else completely.

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[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:09 +0100, Charlie Brej wrote:
> I would like to add somewhere an option to choose the free-desktop default
> directory locations (Desktop/Videos/Downloads...). The values of these are kept
> in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . I'm not sure where precisely would be a reasonable
> place to put these options.
>
> One method would be to have a preferences page allowing a user to set any of the
> directories (currently:DESKTOP, DOWNLOAD, TEMPLATES, PUBLICSHARE, DOCUMENTS,
> MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS).

I'm not sure what the best place is to put this. A bunch of filename
entries for each type isn't exactly a nice piece of ui to show users.

I'd like to point out that there is *some* support at least for changing
this currently. If you just move and/or rename the default directories
nautilus will track this and update the config file.


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[Mattias Eriksson]

I think a easy way to set this directory information would be in the
preferences for a folder. Something like:

User right-klick on a folder and selects preferences
In the first tab (basic? I have swedish translation "Grundläggande") the
user have a option-menu with label "Use as special folder for: " (or
something more intuitive) with all the different kinds of folders
listed. "nothing special about this folder" could be one option and
default for ordinary folders.
Then when the user selects "Music" in the option menu the xdg-magic is
updated.

There should maybe be some control-center capplet for this also, but
this solution would be easy to use and what I as a poweruser expects.

//Snaggen


tis 2007-09-18 klockan 11:14 +0200 skrev Alexander Larsson:

> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 23:09 +0100, Charlie Brej wrote:
> > I would like to add somewhere an option to choose the free-desktop default
> > directory locations (Desktop/Videos/Downloads...). The values of these are kept
> > in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . I'm not sure where precisely would be a reasonable
> > place to put these options.
> >
> > One method would be to have a preferences page allowing a user to set any of the
> > directories (currently:DESKTOP, DOWNLOAD, TEMPLATES, PUBLICSHARE, DOCUMENTS,
> > MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS).
>
> I'm not sure what the best place is to put this. A bunch of filename
> entries for each type isn't exactly a nice piece of ui to show users.
>
> I'd like to point out that there is *some* support at least for changing
> this currently. If you just move and/or rename the default directories
> nautilus will track this and update the config file.
>
>

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[Sébastien Barthélemy-3]

Le lundi 17 septembre 2007 à 23:09 +0100, Charlie Brej a écrit :

> I would like to add somewhere an option to choose the free-desktop default
> directory locations (Desktop/Videos/Downloads...). The values of these are kept
> in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs . I'm not sure where precisely would be a reasonable
> place to put these options.
>
> One method would be to have a preferences page allowing a user to set any of the
> directories (currently:DESKTOP, DOWNLOAD, TEMPLATES, PUBLICSHARE, DOCUMENTS,
> MUSIC, PICTURES and VIDEOS).
>
> Another way would be to have a menu option of "make this my music directory".
>
> Yet another would be to put it somewhere else completely.

Another related topic is Emblems, I think they should be considered at
the same time.

I don't know if anyone really use Emblems, but I think the should be
used as tags (this is fiction):

- tag some folders with the 'Music' emblem', making them 'music
folders'
- When searching for files in tracker you can then restrict to these to
the music files
- When saving a music file, music folders are shown first
- ...

I actually read this proposition somewhere, maybe in this list...



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