My Documents: What's in a name?

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Sunday 22 February 2004 07:35 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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"

I've been looking at Turbolinux 10 Desktop.  Not only do they have icons for 
"My Documents"; but they put a "Wordpad" item in the KDE menu that leads to 
kwrite.  That doesn't do the the creators of either application any justice.

Andrew Gould