Comments on: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Swings In http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/10/22/ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon/ free software, free culture, free association Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/10/22/ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon/#comment-3295 Scott Carpenter Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:40:14 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/10/22/ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon/#comment-3295 It's not just in Unix that the space can be a problem -- Windows itself has its own issues with them, which is why it's even more annoying that MS made programs go in "Program Files", and the home dir as "C:\Documents and Settings\username". I used to try changing things to use spaceless folder names, but it became too much to fight city hall. :-) (In both environments the space can be handled, of course, but not all programs may handle them correctly.) Thanks for your comment -- I could guess what they were supposed to be for, but I wanted to find out more under the covers how they might be configured as common directories. I have another post coming up about GTK Bookmarks and the freedesktop XDG directory specification. It’s not just in Unix that the space can be a problem — Windows itself has its own issues with them, which is why it’s even more annoying that MS made programs go in “Program Files”, and the home dir as “C:\Documents and Settings\username”. I used to try changing things to use spaceless folder names, but it became too much to fight city hall. :-)

(In both environments the space can be handled, of course, but not all programs may handle them correctly.)

Thanks for your comment — I could guess what they were supposed to be for, but I wanted to find out more under the covers how they might be configured as common directories. I have another post coming up about GTK Bookmarks and the freedesktop XDG directory specification.

]]> By: Embedded http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/10/22/ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon/#comment-3293 Embedded Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:16:25 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/10/22/ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon/#comment-3293 My Documents->xp My Music-> Itunes/Amorock My Pictures-> Kodak/Digicam My Webs-> Public My Videos-> Itunes Templates-> Buried in Office I have been using My_Documents etc. for some time. The reason for the underscore is the allergy of certain unix based programs to a space. If someone wants to make Documents, Music, Pictures, Public, Videos, Templates part of the Linux Filesystems standard more power to them. Remember My Documents started out in XP as your visible home directory and that was it. Cheers My Documents->xp
My Music-> Itunes/Amorock
My Pictures-> Kodak/Digicam
My Webs-> Public
My Videos-> Itunes
Templates-> Buried in Office

I have been using My_Documents etc. for some time. The reason for the underscore is the allergy of certain unix based programs to a space.

If someone wants to make Documents, Music, Pictures, Public, Videos, Templates part of the Linux Filesystems standard more power to them. Remember My Documents started out in XP as your visible home directory and that was it.

Cheers

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