## Locating Standard Directories

Locating Standard Directories — Utilities for locating standard directories such as the desktop and trash

## Synopsis

    enum        GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind;
    GnomeVFSResult gnome_vfs_find_directory     (GnomeVFSURI *near_uri,
                                                 GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind kind,
                                                 GnomeVFSURI **result,
                                                 gboolean create_if_needed,
                                                 gboolean find_if_needed,
                                                 guint permissions);

## Description

## Details

### enum GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind

    typedef enum {
    	GNOME_VFS_DIRECTORY_KIND_DESKTOP = 1000,
    	GNOME_VFS_DIRECTORY_KIND_TRASH = 1001
    } GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind;

### gnome_vfs_find_directory ()

    GnomeVFSResult gnome_vfs_find_directory     (GnomeVFSURI *near_uri,
                                                 GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind kind,
                                                 GnomeVFSURI **result,
                                                 gboolean create_if_needed,
                                                 gboolean find_if_needed,
                                                 guint permissions);

Used to return well known directories such as Trash, Desktop, etc. from different file systems.

There is quite a complicated logic behind finding/creating a Trash directory and you need to be aware of some implications: Finding the Trash the first time when using the file method may be pretty expensive. A cache file is used to store the location of that Trash file for next time. If `ceate_if_needed` is specified without `find_if_needed`, you may end up creating a Trash file when there already is one. Your app should start out by doing a gnome_vfs_find_directory with the `find_if_needed` to avoid this and then use the `create_if_needed` flag to create Trash lazily when it is needed for throwing away an item on a given disk.

`near_uri` : | find a well known directory on the same volume as `near_uri`
`kind` : | kind of well known directory
`result` : | newly created URI of the directory we found
`create_if_needed` : | If directory we are looking for does not exist, try to create it
`find_if_needed` : | If we don't know where trash is yet, look for it.
`permissions` : | If creating, use these permissions
Returns : | An integer representing the result of the operation