Re: Localization of special directories

[Chan Maxthon]

Being creative, can we implement it in alternative ways, like allowing a 
directory to carry a bundle that will not only provide localized folder names 
but also much more?

发自我的 iPhone

在 2013-3-14，7:17，Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> 写道：

> Hi,
> 
> On 03/13/13 22:41, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> 
>> More information may be found on this page:
>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
> I think the matter is complicated.
> 
> The Mac approach is localize on Display and this is reflected in the NS* 
> constants.
> Localizing that is easy: you just need to localize the display and that can 
> be done with our strings.
> The current names are 99% of those of apple except "Pictures" which I choose 
> to name "Images" because I happen to like that better.
> 
> The other problem instead is the existing directory structure which may be 
> documented (or not) bu the xdg file from freedesktop, which means also 
> looking up a file. Those will be localized already and even not may have 
> different names than what NSWorkspace expects.
> 
> A possible solution would be to initialize/overriride the constants with the 
> values of freedesktop. This would have the benefit that if a music player 
> opens NSMusicDirectory, it will open the one really present on the system, 
> even if it is called "My Music" or "Sounds" or whatever. I don't know how 
> this could be handled well and efficiently.
> 
> This would be incompatible with localization on display, since the "key" 
> would be different. I might up ending trying to find the localization of "My 
> Music" instead of "Music".
> 
> Now I remember well why I just postponed this issue two years ago :)
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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