[openbeos] Re: B_USER_DATA_DIRECTORY?
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:03:00 +0200 CEST
Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I see evil things happening. This should not become a replacement for
> /boot/apps/{my-app}/data. Static data that should be readable by all
> users (game data files, for example) should live in the app's data
> folder. Otherwise we will have a totally cluttered system.
> IMHO, what should go into the new folder are:
> dynamic (!!!) data files that are NOT settings!
Yeah, absolutely. Static app resources should stay
in the app folder. (Or in the app itself, should the
developer prefer so, but that goes without saying.)
Only non-default app data that are not settings,
and also not documents in the usual sense, would
be allowed in such a folder. Whatever it's called.
Something that expresses the app <-> user relation.
Perhaps it's impossible to capture this in one word.
~/config/ "app<->user extras" /
/Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
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