[PMH] Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Tuomas Kuosmanen]

On 24 May 2001 19:54:18 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Yep, the folder would be in your homedir in any case. Or somewhere you
> > changet it yourself (if there is some capplet to set them)
> 
> Well, but how should non-GConf programs find out the name/location of a
> directory?

They just dont?

> But I suppose that there's nothing that can be done about, is there?

Yeah, just default to $HOME like always before. IF something like this
gets implemented, a basic hook could be in gnome-libs so "unless the
program knows any better place, default to [the folder from gconf]"

But this is going beyond me already, so I'll leave it to the real
hackers on how to implement this, or if this is worth the effort anyway.

Tuomas
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