[openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?

> > (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.)
Um "home" is extremely important word to keep. Everybody has an idea
what it means. Do you want to rename the mouse? That's pretty dated
too. Though admittedly, since there is already /boot/home as the
user's home, having the actual separate home directories in a "homes"
or "accounts" or "users" directory would make sense.

Also, the whole symlink think I think has the right general idea, but
wrong implementation. The OS presumably knows who the current user is,
and can take care of /boot/home as a special case like /dev. It isn't
a real directory or even a symbolic link, but the OS can automagically
make the association between /boot/home and the user's actual home
directory. Or better yet, /home references the current user's home and
the rootfs takes care of that. Then for backwards compatibility
/boot/home points to /home.


Ted

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