[openbeos] Re: suggestions for R2

I just reposted this to Glasselevator, where R2 belongs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Zanon" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: [openbeos] suggestions for R2


> Hi again :)
> 
> these, instead, are my suggestions for R2, some of them I already 
> told to Michael and will repeat here...
> 
> 1) have a sizer-based method of positioning controls in a window, 
> instead of a position-based one;
> 
> 2) make OBOS multi-user, in the sense that every user has its own 
> space for writing data and configuration files (I'm not asking 
> for multi-user mode in the Linux sense: I suppose this would be 
> much more difficult to achieve, but it would be a good suggestion 
> for R3 :);
> 
> 3) this is my proposed directories structure:
> /boot
> /dev
> /etc
> /home
>   /home/user1
>   /home/user2
>   ...
> /usr
>   /usr/bin
>     /usr/bin/apps
>       /usr/bin/apps/app1
>       /usr/bin/apps/app2
>       ...
>     /usr/bin/add-ons
>   /usr/sbin
>   /usr/share
>     /usr/share/cliparts
>     /usr/share/icons
>     /usr/share/pictures
>     /usr/share/sounds
>     /usr/share/wallpapers
>   /usr/src
>     /usr/src/src1
>     /usr/src/src2
>     ...
> /var
> 
> 4) what about the servers? will Sourceforge allow OBOS to carry a 
> 680Mb ISO in its home, and to have an enormous amount of contacts 
> every day? do we need to search for some provider, and to collect 
> money for this reason?
> 
> thanks :)
> 
> p.s.: I know I'm asking about huge things and huge modifications 
> to do, but these are mere proposals, I'm not criticizing anyone's 
> work...
> 
> Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]
> 
> 
>

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