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Idea #6499: Make optional localized personal dirs or create symlinks for it

Written by giner the 6 Apr 08 at 13:24. Category: Installation. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Since Ubuntu Gutsy folders such as Desktop become localized by default, for example: "$HOME/Рабочий стол" instead of "$HOME/Desktop". Its unuseful.

Please, make it optional during Ubuntu install or make symlinks to not localized directories.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6499
Written by giner the 6 Apr 08 at 13:24.
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Solution #2: ask user to create national user dirs
Written by asashnov the 23 Jan 09 at 10:11.
On first start xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update will ask user, if hi want to create well-known directories in their native language or in english.

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wit3k wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 15:28
Hi Im Pole and also had this "problem"

You can just type
ln Рабочий\ стол Desktop

so now its the one place. Really it should be done by default.

mmcmonster wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 15:39
I don't see an issue here. If you are installing the Polish language, why would you want "Desktop" instead of the Polish equivalent? Are there applications that don't use the localization? If so, bugs should be entered for those applications. Isn't there a freedesktop.org environment variable applications should be using instead of $HOME/Desktop? (Maybe $HOME/$DESKTOP or $DESKTOP_LOCATION ?)

Eldmannen wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 15:47
Well, there should be like $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR that points to it...

XVIIarcano wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 16:52
this always seemed a solution looking for a problem to me: a lot of hassle and issues, not 100 integrating applications and such... all to have "scrivania" (for me) instead of desktop and a couple of other folders such as Video and Music... they are all terms any pc user (including the ubernoobs) have no problem with. I'd welcome an option during install to just disable folder localization instead.

Endolith wrote on the 22 Oct 08 at 17:35
Why don't you want things in your own language?

PedroCunha wrote on the 10 Jul 09 at 00:23
@Endolith:

For example, in Portuguese the folder "Desktop" becomes "Área de trabalho".

I don't like it that way because:

1. It has spaces, which makes using it inside the shell hard and through SSH, impossible.
2. I like standardized names (Desktop for the desktop, Documents for the document, Music for the music folder, ...)
3. I like English better xD


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