Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by fomine3 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:21PM (#34735213)

Also I hate localized XDG directories. Windows and macOS don't localize real directory name but only Linux does. I run LANG=C xdg-user-dirs-update after I install Linux with my lang

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by jbverschoor on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:14AM (#34736263)

Windows does (did at least)

And macOS has Xxx.localized directories

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by fomine3 on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:20AM (#34736692)

Windows just localizes how it shown on Explorer (and have API to get localized name), so real path is still C:\Users\user\Documents . macOS does the same thing by the way as you wrote. I don't think it's a problem.

Only XDG based systems use real /home/user/ドキュメント (in Japanese) directory . This is annoying. Please localize it well as Win/mac does.

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by jeltz on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:26AM (#34737438)

I 100% agree. Localized directories was a stupid mistake. The way Windows does it today is much better and XDG should follow suit.

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by wink on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:32AM (#34738815)

Now yes, but it didn't used to be that way. No, I can't tell you which version changed that, it might have been 2000. :P

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Re:Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, ... by account42 on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:59AM (#34739649)

Right, I still remember programs blowing up because they expected C:\Program Files and then encountered C:\Programme - that one at least got better when WoW64 forced the issue for english-speaking devs.

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