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["Scott MacMaster" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems unnecessary to have home be the root of what you own.  When all you 
need is / (for remote logins).  For local users, /boot/users/CurrnetUser/. 
It seems redundant to have a home directory under the user folder. 
/boot/home is probably useful to not have user document, settings, etc at 
the mixed in with beos, apps, etc.  In fact, /boot/home/ could be made to 
link to /boot/users/CurrentUser/ instead of /boot/users/CurrentUser/home.


Later,
Scott MacMaster

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:03 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?


> > "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > (BTW, IMO, 'home' is starting to feel a little dated.
> > > > I mean, we've had it since.. the 1970's?
> > > > Perhaps users, accounts, or people would be a
> > > > better name for such a folder.)
> > >
> > > And? my home folder is my home folder - that's the place where
> > > you
> > > should feel home, not just some people, or even worse, accounts
> > > :)
> > > I think that's just what it is, why rename?
> >
> > Home is singularis, so it fits with BeOS.
> >
> > Plus, a home.. a desktop.. and a folder (from a filing cabinet)
> >
> > A home folder.  It's a strange complex of metaphors.
> >
> > Probably not something we can can or should change right now, but
> > still
> > worth thinking about once in a while.
> >
> > Anyway, discussing to 'home' or not to 'home' was not central at
> > all
> > to
> > what I wrote in my previous email. (granted much of it was
> > irrelevant
> > but it still had some meat)
>
> 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.

François.