[haiku-commits] Re: r40922 - in haiku/trunk: headers/private/locale src/apps/deskbar src/kits/locale src/kits/tracker

  • From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:43:01 +0100

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:40:56 +0100, "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
>> In previous versions of Windows, the german "Program files" was indeed 
>> "Programme" on the file system level. The problem being that some 
>> non-localized applications installed themselves into "Program files" so

>> you ended up with both folders. Maybe there is no perfect solution to 
>> this problem, but I like the Windows 7 (Mac OS X is the same) solution 
>> better.
> 
> Maybe hard links could work to give filesystem entries multiple real
> locations with localized names. But if not created somewhat lazily
> there would quite a lot of them. (How would it affect fs performance?)

BFS can't do hardlinks.
It would also make everything get listed twice, which doesn't sound like a
good idea...

-- 
Adrien.

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