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Subject: Localised folders in /home/user (Documents and Desktop)
From: Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister () gmx ! net>
Date: 2006-11-19 10:48:41
Message-ID: 200611191148.42092.sven.burmeister () gmx ! net
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Hello everybody!
When starting KDE the first time, folders such as "Desktop" as well
as "Documents" are created. They are always created with an English name,
although the rest of KDE is using the local language.
Since only very few people switch languages after installing KDE and further
one might assume that people who like to have their folders in English will
choose English as language anyway, I think it would increase usability, if
those folders were created in the local language.
Those folders are partly translated in dialogues, e.g. the open/save dialogue
shows "Arbeitsfläche" on the speedbar which points to "Desktop" on the
filesystem. This is confusing, since the user has to translate for itself
that in the filesystem the same place is called differently then on the
speedbar.
Of course one could rename the folders manually, but that would make them
dissappear from the speedbar, unless the user finds out that one has to
change the path as well (in kcontrol), which should not be necessary.
Is there anything that would speak against localising folders from a usability
perspective? Or are their any other reasons against this?
I would appreciate if after some discussion here a usability related developer
would state its opinion in the bug-report about this issue.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137506
Thanks,
Sven
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