> On 2022-01-03, at 9:57 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>      Primitive. Query for a common file location.
>>        Arguments:
>>                location: String describing the common file location.
>>        Return value: The path to the designated location.
>>        Known locations:
>>                'home' - the user's home directory
>>                'desktop' - the user's desktop directory
>> 
>>                'temp' - the temp directory to use
>>                'preferences' - the place to store (per user) app preferences
>>                'applications' - the directory for installing applications
>>                'fonts' - the directory to install fonts in the system
>> 
>>                'documents' - the users documents folder
>>                'music' - the users default location for music
>>                'pictures' - the users default location for pictures
>>                'videos' - the users default location for videos
>> 
> Neat!
> These are very user-oriented, which is fine.
> Maybe we can augment it down the path with some system locations :)

The only one I don't see is the location for the sources file(s), which isn't surprising since I doubt VirtEnd uses them.

Suggestion - make the prim only return any platform specific directory or nil; the method could then supply whatever defaults seem sensible (ie pretty much what we assume now). Thus a platform without the prim would behave as now.

tim
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