[vlc-devel] [NEW FEATURE] -- recorded videos and snapshots made available in GUI

[jpd at videolan.org]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:57:41PM +0200, R??mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:28:10 +0200, R??mi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
> wrote:
> >>    Their location is changed to be more consistent
> >>     - snaphots are moved from userdir into userdir/snapshot (on Linux)
> >>     - records are moved from homedir into userdir/recorded
> > 
> > From which file system convention is this coming from?
> > 
> > I am not very keen on creating non-hidden directories into the
> > user's home if it's not conventional.
> 
> In fact, we should use ~/Desktop on Linux too, I guess.

I'm afraid there's no convention on this and thus this really should be
configurable. Though IMO it should be configurable even if there was
such a convention.