[Gambas-user] Probem analysing Desktop path

[Willy Raets]

Rolf,

On my system I installed English OS with Dutch language.
No problem "~/Desktop" is there.

On a system of a friend of mine he installed Dutch OS with Dutch
language. And that seems to be the difference.
The is NO "~/Desktop", instead ls at command returns
"~/Bureaublad" (Dutch for desktop)

When changing code to:
If Exist(User.Home & "/Desktop") Then
  sPath = User.Home &  "/Desktop/SystemInfo.txt"
Else
  If Exist( User.Home & "/Bureaublad") Then
     sPath = User.Home&  "/Bureaublad/SystemInfo.txt"
  Endif
Endif

It works fine on his sytem and on mine.

I was thinking about using the internationalisation and do something
like:

Dim sDesktop, sPath As String
sDesktop = ("Desktop")
If Exist (User.Home & "/" & sDesktop) Then
  sPath = User.Home & "/" & sDesktop & "/SystemInfo.txt"
Endif

But this will NOT work on my system as OS has "/Desktop" folder and
because of language Dutch installed, Gambas application would look for
"Bureaublad" in my case, which I don't have on my system.
So this would not work for all situations and makes it even worst.

I also run into the .desktop file doing research on the matter, but it
seems to be a KDE thing. I'm on Gnome and no .desktop file found there.

Thanks for thinking along. At least I can now implement 3 languages for
Desktop :-) not that it solves the problem.


On di, 2012-03-06 at 17:09 +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Willy - are you really sure the path name is translated, not only its 
> caption within the GUI? I think you don't need to worry... On my German 
> system, it would be "Arbeitsfläche", and there is still a ~/Desktop 
> (with k).
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
> 
> Am 06.03.2012 15:48, schrieb Willy Raets:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm have this in my code:
> >
> > If Exist(Use.Home&  "/Desktop) then
> >     sPath = User.Home&  "/Desktop/SystemInfo.txt"
> > Endif
> >
> > Now it turns out that this only works on systems with English language.
> > Other systems translate "Desktop" into local language!!
> > Like for Dutch it will be "Bureaublad" instead of "Desktop"
> >
> > As it is impossible for me to test for 150 different ways "Desktop" is
> > written in other languages, I was wondering is there a way around this.
> >
> > Does the system somewhere have the original English name for Desktop
> > that I can test against? Or is there any other way of solving this
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Willy
> >
> >
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