My Documents: What's in a name?

[Net Llama!]

On 02/22/04 17:23, Joel Hammer wrote:

> 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? 

Actually its a windoze thing that lindows is choosing to emulate.  I'm 
not aware of any real Linux distro that does that.

> 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.

symlink?
mydox -> "My Documents"

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