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Idea
#6493: New /home directory organization
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Written by wit3k the 6 Apr 08 at 12:04.
Category: Accessibility.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Its the matter of standard but...
searching for application preferences is a bit strange. I think it would be nice to see something like that
/home
--/common
--/defaul
--/root
--/my_u_name
----/preferences____here should be all application files saved
----/music \
----/documents | All of this kind dirs should be symlinks
----/video / with internacionalized names. User should be asked at firs logon where he wants to keep this things (e.g. some people prefer to keep documents on /media/ntfshitty to be able to read documents when they use xp)
++Computer
----/System
------/Applications
------/Libs
------/Documentation
^^System should be also virtual directory with gobo like symlinks generated at every dir refresh. Its not for administrative purposes like in gobo - I think rather about something what will simplify acces to these things for users withought sudo priv`s
It`s easier to sort list of those things in nautilus visrtual directory than thousands of duplicated (versions&symlinks) little files in /usr/bin
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wit3k wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 12:32
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I dont want to create new topic so Im putting it in comments.
So. Maybe ++Computer with its gobo like tree isnt idea which would be liked by everyone so maybe optionaly but:
my main wish is to put Application preferences into one directory.
/home
--/wit3k
----/preferences
------/.gnome
------/.nautilus
------/.firefox
------/.etc
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Auzy wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 13:08
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well, that and other ideas
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mp3phish wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 21:04
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not only is this a dupe, but a bad idea. There is already a STANDARD on freedesktop.org which states exactly how the home directory should be laid out, and Ubuntu currently does not follow it.
Until the standard (which is actually a good idea) is followed, we won't be able to realize improvements upon it. It won't take much time, but basically it involves all upstream packagers implementing the standard before it will be solved.
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Endperform wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 19:23
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Hrm, if the submitter likes Gobo's layout so much....
Seriously though, this has been battled over time and time again.
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