On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> I really like the idea of being able to move people between
> >> operating systems and just bringing the profile along
> >> without having to export and import...
> >>
> >> (seems to me there are online services that offer that
> >> convenience, but being able to do it with the raw file
> >> is cool.)
> >
> > In what scenarios would this be useful? If it's easy to do, it'd be
> cool,
> > but it seems like this would have a very small minority of users.
>
> When migrating users between operating systems. Say,
> a company decides to migrate all its office workers from
> Windows to Linux. Or if somebody installs Ubuntu on
> a Windows machine on its own; I believe they try
> to migrate settings when you do that.
>
> One goal of Chrome was to make operating systems not matter;
> one way to do that is to make the profile file (mostly) portable.
>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Brett Wilson <bre...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Avi Drissman<a...@google.com> wrote:
>> > I've heard people proclaim the principle of being able to copy a profile
>> > across systems as being a deciding factor for certain changes (e.g. the
>> > history epoch change). However, it doesn't seem to be universally held
>> or
>> > obeyed, and I'm not sure to the extent to which it can be obeyed. So
>> some
>> > questions:
>> >
>> > - Is "profile platform independence" a guiding principle?
>> > - To what extent do we work to make it reality?
>>
>> I don't think this is a guiding principle. We should do it when it's
>> reasonable. I think most places it is reasonable to do so.
>>
>> > - In the cases where it can't be kept (e.g. download folder path) should
>> we
>> > keep a copy for each platform?
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> > - Is it worth rewriting today's code that doesn't conform (e.g.
>> extensions
>> > and themes which use full paths and platform path separators)?
>>
>> I don't think so, although I do wonder if full paths are necessary,
>>
>
> It was painful to remove all of the full paths from mozilla's profile. It
> was something people wanted because they wanted to be able to just copy
> their profile from one computer to another. Think of moving a profile from
> WinXP to Vista where the path to your windows profile changes.
>
I think moving between different versions of the OS is a simpler and more
common problem than moving between different OSs. I could come up with
convoluted scenarios about why I'd want to move my profile between different
OSs, but if it's not a common user request, then it's not worth the effort
IMO.
- Dan
>
> >
>
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