Re: NSMovieDirectory

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> Actual directory path being an implementation detail and not something 
> a user would usually worry about, we can choose display another value 
> in UI. This is what other (sane) systems do.

Guys, we have 5 out of 6 done, so the 6th should just follow what we 
have now so that it can be released and we are sure it works fine.
Localisation is very tricky and Bertrand and I are doing experiments on 
how Mac is apparently inconsistent.


> And if we choose to follow freedesktop.org <http://freedesktop.org> 
> user-dirs, we can always query the relevant data files to figure out 
> correct names, whether it's Videos vs Movies vs Filmovi, or Images vs 
> Pictures vs Slike.
> http://askubuntu.com/q/457047/18187
>
> So I'd strongly stick to the above and NOT use directories just 
> because other free desktop environments do; if anything, we can return 
> multiple directories (both Movies and Videos). Let's say, if the 
> alternative directory exists.

This could cause quite some issues with localizations requiring a 
multiple indirection, essentially a double mapping which I'd like to 
avoid now.

The physical names have to be in English so they can be recognized or a 
mapping needs to be done which we don't have right now. That's what mac 
and Windows do.
> And long term we can have a compile time flag to adopt xdo basedir 
> spec directories, as well as special user directories.

Yes, but it requires more work, I wills tick to a gradual 
implementation. Continuous evolution.

Riccardo