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A Picture is worth a thousand words

Sean Collins
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Jun 02 MyBlog 3 Comments

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this picture demonstrates why enforcing some minimum guidelines for folder and file layout are so critical to keeping things sane.

 

 

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0 # RE: A Picture is worth a thousand words michaelvoliveira 2011-06-03 00:04
I don't get...

You are saying about the home folder store settings of games?

This is an unix standard...
 
 
+1 # RE: RE: A Picture is worth a thousand words tonestone57 2011-06-03 07:21
Quoting michaelvoliveira:
I don't get...

You are saying about the home folder store settings of games?

This is an unix standard...


Yes, Sean is saying that we should not have any config (settings) folders in /boot/home. Also, should not use any dot folders which comes from Unix standard.

For "properly" ported Unix applications; settings should go into:
home/config/settings/program-name

example:
home/config/settings/Webpositive

Adrien (Haiku dev) said:
about the config files directory : properly ported apps should use this code :
find_directory(B_USER_SETTINGS _DIRECTORY)

This currently returns /boot/home/config/settings/, but it may change in future releases.


configure may allow to fix this otherwise should go through the code of the program and fix it. Then program will conform to Haiku's folder layout.
 
 
0 # RE: RE: A Picture is worth a thousand words SeanCollins 2011-06-03 10:23
Quoting michaelvoliveira:
I don't get...

You are saying about the home folder store settings of games?

This is an unix standard...



Haiku is not a unix system.
 


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