[haiku] "Pictures" folder? (aka; default folders in /home/ for common media types)
- From: Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:05:21 -0400
I was pondering this in relation to the Backgrounds settings recently,
but it got me thinking a bit more about it...
I know that "everyone else is doing it" isn't a good reason to do
something, but I notice that the other major desktops today [1] all
seem to use some sort of "Library" paradigm to offer a common place in
a user's home folder somewhere for Pictures, Videos, Music, Documents,
Downloads, etc... so that when doing something like setting a new
wallpaper, the Pictures folder is usually either aggregated into the
available images to use, or at least offered as one of the first
choices.
Mainly I was thinking about this because I was dumping my wallpapers
in the system/data/artwork/ folder since that was the folder that
showed up by default to choose an image from, and I didn't like having
to do that again every time I updated the OS. I suppose I could have
left them in my home dir somewhere and just restored that and browsed
to wherever they were and chose them that way... but I liked having
the choices show up by default without me having to browse for them.
It's nice to have a sane default location for things like that.
I was curious what the opinions were on some kind of folders in the
home dir as default locations to store such things that apps could
include as a default choice for where to load the appropriate files
from?
For example on Windows the "Photos" screensaver by default shows a
slideshow of the photos in your Pictures directory. You can choose
another folder if you want, but by default it chooses the default
location where pictures would likely be so that you can see a preview
immediately, or just accept the settings as is without needing to
browse anywhere else etc.
[1]
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/phreadom/macosx-home-folder.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/phreadom/ubuntu-home-folder.png
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d12/phreadom/microsoft-windows-libraries.png
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