[haiku] Re: "Pictures" folder? (aka; default folders in /home/ for common media types)
- From: Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:04:43 -0700
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:49:29PM -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> 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,
Indeed... That is certainly one of my most used ones. In fact it tends
to collect way too much stuff "that I'll keep for a while" and never get
round to moving or deleting! (Again, though, it's never the default
in 'home'. I always specify it in the common partition.)
>
> > 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.
But find_directory returns a (single) BPath, doesn't it? I was thinking more
of allowing a set of folders to be specified, as in the environment variable
"PATH".
I like Axel/Francois' thoughts of tagging folders with suitable attributes,
though.
-- Pete --
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