My Documents: What's in a name?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It's a windows thing.  Lindows has chosen to follow Bill and his boys in 
this.  I haven't seen any other distro do it although you can create 
them yourself if you want the hassle of handling names with blanks embedded.



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? 
> 
> 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
> 
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