[rox-devel] Feature Request: suppress underscore in filenames

[Guido S. <gui...@fr...>]

I'm currently building a ROX-based control center.
Now I would like to give some of the appdirs names
containing white space. While this is no problem
for wrappers, it is sometimes simply impossible
for real appdirs. For relocatable apps a header
like this will do the trick:

#!/bin/sh
APP_DIR=`dirname "$0"`
APP_DIR=`cd "$APP_DIR";pwd`; export "APP_DIR"
cd "$APP_DIR"

But regrettably many apps hardwire their search 
pathes, and then they are so poorly programmed,
that they will be unable to find their resources, 
if the path contains white space.
Only patching those apps will help in this case.

Now my suggestion:
Display underscores in filenames as white space in the filer !
(except leading and trailing underscores probably)
Underscores are usually being used as a replacement for 
white space anyway.

I know this is but a minor aesthetical issue. But it's
those little details, which make the difference in
user experience IMHO.

	=Guido=