Hi,
Note that these changes were introduced in Windows Vista, so applications that are being actively maintained should have no issues with these changes.
Also note that on localized versions localized folder names link to the English physical folder, so the folder structure is more consistenc across localized versions of Windows.
Legacy applications on the other hand are a different story and application compatibility hacks have to be used anyway. Changing shell folder names and and linking legacy names is most likely a working solution since that also was introducted in Windows Vista and was not refined in Windows 7.
Kornél
Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I suspect there are badly behaved apps on both sides of the road, however these apps are legitimately broken; would they even work on a non-english version of windows?
If there was a choice to be made though, for what it's worth, I always hated the spaces too.
J. Leclanche
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Dan Kegeldank@kegel.com wrote:
Windows 7 changed the folders in c:/users/$USERNAME around a bit.
My Documents is now just a link to the new folder Documents Application Data is now just a link to the new folder AppData/Roaming Local Settings is now just a link to the new folder AppData/Local
How is this going to affect Wine? Well-behaved apps that use CSIDL_PERSONAL to get at "My Documents" or "Documents" will work regardless, but users or badly behaved apps might start expecting the shorter directory names sometime. (I always hated the spaces, anyway.)