My Documents: What's in a name?

[Joel Hammer]

Plenty. Blanks.

When you consider all the numerous and petty aggravations
inherent in embedded blanks in file names, you have got
to wonder: Why does lindows create for every user a My
Documents and My Computer and My Music and My Photos folder
in the user's home directory? Even the startup script for acroread
assumes a My Documents folder.

Is this just a lindows thing? 

Some applications, including some install scripts and
xhtml2ps, just can't handle embedded blanks.

Argg&&&&*&^%$!!!

Go figure.

It there a civilized why to fix this problem? Just
changing the folder names really doesn't help because
some applications seem to think that a My Document, etc,
folder exists.  I am afraid KDE assumes this, too, but I
have no proof of this.

Joel