[openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?
- From: "David A. Rogers" <darogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:18:49 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Forgive the noob, but why not a ~/.appname directory? Haiku is POSIX so
getenv("HOME") ought to work.
dar
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mikael Jansson 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.)
> >
> Just to clarify:
>
> This is something that concerns Haiku, because there is no such
> directory for BeOS, and therefore a we need to come up with a standard
> location for these files.
>
> It can be thought of as a follow-up on my earlier rant about how to
> organize the ~/config hierarchy, and basically a real-world example,
> really. Loose ends needs to be tied up!
>
> --
> Mikael Jansson
> http://mikael.jansson.be
>
>
>
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