[haiku-commits] Re: r35040 - haiku/trunk/src/kits/tracker
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:39:08 +0100
-- François Revol, on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:13:13 +0100 CET:
> > Speaking of that, shouldn't Haiku give a good example by moving .
> > bash_history and .profile etc. to e.g. ~/config/settings/Terminal?
>
> Historically this is the name of the setting for the BeOS Terminal
> app
> itself. Besides, it is bash-specific, so someone using another shell
> should not use it.
The ~/config/settings/Terminal was supposed to be a folder. In it you
would find the Terminal_settings file as well as .bash_history, .
profile etc.
> Also, it's not a settings file, rather a cache of last commands.
In order to not have everything spread out into several folders, I'm
for a relaxed handling of such things. Sure, you could create a
~/config/data/ besides the ~/config/settings/, but why spread things
out?
> Still, while it's nice to try to sort out the Unix mess, I'd advise
> against overdesigning, many scripts/apps assume some paths and really
> don't like when stuff gets renamed.
Well, you know what they say about scripts that "assume"... :)
Anyway, I trust you guys do the right thing. From a user perspective I
just wanted to stress how annoying the .dot mess can get. But you'll
know that yourselves just as well, I guess...
Regards,
Humdinger
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