On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not too enthused by schemes like this. My Ubuntu system kindly > provides such repositories, but they tend to stay empty, as I usually > have other ideas as to organization. Obviously there is never really a perfect "one-size-fits-all" solution to something like this, but I personally agree with Justin that a set of default folders for common file types would be useful. One that I think we definitely need is Downloads, I hate how WebPositive just dumps everything on the Desktop. I know that is configurable now but there is no reason to force users to create a ~/Downloads directory and then change the Web+ setting when that is a great default. > For example, storing all my images in one 'Pictures' folder would get > unwieldy fast; they rather get put in different folders according to > their context. Perhaps all with a common root, but more usually > connected by convenient links. Well certainly Pictures could just be a directory with subdirectories? > More importantly, I usually *don't* use 'home' as the root of all my > data files -- especially as one tends to have a number of different > bootable Haiku systems. So I dedicate a separate partition to > holding all that stuff. That is generally true for most people who use Haiku in any serious fashion, so I agree being able to configure the location of these default directories would be nice. See more below... > What might be more useful than specific default folders would > be user-specifiable path lists, like the other current environment > variable '...PATH's: "PICTURE_PATH", "MUSIC_PATH", and so on. How about they be defined as find_directory constants which can be changed using a preference tool? find_directory(B_USER_DOWNLOADS_DIRECTORY) Those could then we easily exported in the Terminal usind the finddir tool if you wanted the above environment variables. -- Regards, Ryan