FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?

["Mikael Jansson" <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx>]

> > Think people may have read the top bit and skipped the 
> > rest...that's 
> > what I did anyway (sorry!)
> > 
> > On the "home" issue, I never really understood what it was for 
> > (coming 
> > from windows without ever going thru anything vaguely unixy). After 
> > using BeOS for a while, I decided it was where programs decided to 
> > put 
> > stuff, where config stuff went, etc. In fact, I created a /boot/
> > Files 
> > folder just so I could put things in there myself and feel like it 
> > was 
> > a folder I actually owned for all of my stuff. "My Documents" isn't 
> > such a bad idea.
> > 
> Except you are not supposed to put anything in /boot
> on multiuser systems you're not supposed to touch anything that's not 
> contained in your $HOME, and you don't have permission to do so.
> that's what the home folder is, it's the root of what *you* own.
> 
That's semantics; the problem was that he didn't know that $HOME was 
actually where you store your documents.

We clearly need to emphasize how to use the folders in the boot volume. 
apps for applications, beos for read-only system stuff, etc.

After reading Simon's comment, I actually think it's not such a bad 
idea to rename /boot/home (or rather $HOME, for multi-user 
environments) to something more unambigiously(sp?) indicating that this 
is where the user's data goes.

--
Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be