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>And when people complain, the devs have the gall to suggest that this is all fine. You're complaining on a really high level and nobody suggested "this is fin

>And when people complain, the devs have the gall to suggest that this is all fine. You're complaining on a really high level and nobody suggested "this is fine". They suggested "wishlist" is fine according to their definition of "if it's not immediately broken and a fix is not trivial" If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or wherever you came from and install i3 again?

emgee_1 8y ago
Sorry I do not want a directory /Documents if /docs is what i want when i want it...
- boreq 8y ago
  It is your lucky day - there is a standard for this as well https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories
  - gerdesj 8y ago
    I've only been using Linux for around 10 years as my only desk and laptop OS and this is the first I heard of XDG user dirs! This laptop runs Arch. Thanks for the heads up. I'll drop "/etc/papersize" in return. If you are not familiar with this and do not print to letter paper then you will find it very, very useful.
    - dbrgn 8y ago
      Oh wow. If this does what I think it does, I'll be forever grateful for that comment.
      - gerdesj 8y ago
        It really does make CUPS, Libre Office and all the rest believe you when you say "I want to print on A4, yes A4, no not fucking Letter, A4, end of!" Obviously, substitute your paper size of choice. It probably even lends itself to some form of scripting and perhaps could be changed in reaction to events from say NetworkManager. Whatever. My life at home is now worth living every time the wife hits print. Such a simple idea - brilliant.
nycticorax 8y ago
Maybe I'm being unfair to the snap devs. But maybe not. Comments like this don't inspire confidence: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053/comments/158 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053... Also, the bug was first reported in 2016, and Mark Shuttleworth himself has commented on it. And yet it's still not fixed. That gives me the impression that the devs don't consider it super-important. Which is odd to me, since I consider not doing this kind of thing to be 'table stakes' for any application that wants me to take it seriously. > If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or wherever you came from and install i3 again? Ummm, I came from Linux before they started having default Documents, Videos, etc folders. And, like I said, the nice thing is that, in Linux, I can change the XDG environment variables and delete the (IMHO) foolish Documents, Music, Videos, etc folders.

emgee_1 8y ago

Sorry I do not want a directory /Documents if /docs is what i want when i want it...

boreq 8y ago
It is your lucky day - there is a standard for this as well https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories
- gerdesj 8y ago
  I've only been using Linux for around 10 years as my only desk and laptop OS and this is the first I heard of XDG user dirs! This laptop runs Arch. Thanks for the heads up. I'll drop "/etc/papersize" in return. If you are not familiar with this and do not print to letter paper then you will find it very, very useful.
  - dbrgn 8y ago
    Oh wow. If this does what I think it does, I'll be forever grateful for that comment.
    - gerdesj 8y ago
      It really does make CUPS, Libre Office and all the rest believe you when you say "I want to print on A4, yes A4, no not fucking Letter, A4, end of!" Obviously, substitute your paper size of choice. It probably even lends itself to some form of scripting and perhaps could be changed in reaction to events from say NetworkManager. Whatever. My life at home is now worth living every time the wife hits print. Such a simple idea - brilliant.

nycticorax 8y ago

Maybe I'm being unfair to the snap devs. But maybe not. Comments like this don't inspire confidence: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053/comments/158 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053... Also, the bug was first reported in 2016, and Mark Shuttleworth himself has commented on it. And yet it's still not fixed. That gives me the impression that the devs don't consider it super-important. Which is odd to me, since I consider not doing this kind of thing to be 'table stakes' for any application that wants me to take it seriously. > If you have an issue with default folders that are quite normal in a modern desktop environment I suggest you move back to Arch or wherever you came from and install i3 again? Ummm, I came from Linux before they started having default Documents, Videos, etc folders. And, like I said, the nice thing is that, in Linux, I can change the XDG environment variables and delete the (IMHO) foolish Documents, Music, Videos, etc folders.