[openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?

Alan Westbrook <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> What about
> 
> ~/Documents/[app]/
> 
Ney, I want my home folder to contain what I've created.  Data that 
I've "meta-created", through some other application, but not directly 
isn't what I want in my home folder when I back it up.  Stuff I create; 
images I draw, code I create - personal data, that's what goes in 
$HOME. 

So, how about e-mail? Well, I'm not entirely certain about that, if we 
now draw it to the edge.  Myself I've created a separate volume for 
storing email and news messages. Not quite sure where to put it.

Say I download a SoundPlay skin. Or I download 100'000 SoundPlay skins.  
I wouldn't want that clogging up my home directory. And it -is- 
clogging it up, regardless if it's a folder or spread out -- the point 
is that it's still my home directory.

Also, it's probably not the user data dir, but B_COMMON_DATA_DIRECTORY.


> Alan
> 
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > "Mikael Jansson" <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >>So, the question is: Where are those pictures stored? Not in ~/
> > > config
> >>/
> >>settings, because it isn't a setting. The user shouldn't specify it 
> >>himself, either, because they show up in the application, and 
> > > should 
> >>the user want to find the notes, it would be clearly stated in the 
> >>documentation where to find them (if the user would want to, say, 
> >>print 
> >>them.)
> > 
> > 
> > If I remember correctly we just discussed the introduction of new 
> > directoy types in this list a few weeks ago.
> > B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY was one of the proposed additions.
> > While it would be easy to add these types, and I'll probably do it 
> > for 
> > testing purposes, I don't think we have finally decided on that 
> > matter 
> > yet.
> > 
> > Bye,
> >    Axel.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be

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