Actually, the original distinction was stuff that could be shared across computers and stuff that couldn't be shared (i.e., local state). I think originally this was for the difference between stuff that a mounted home directory would sync and stuff that wouldn't sync.
In practice, I think it's used for both, which is all the more reason to merge them. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Evan Stade <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking at <http://crbug.com/19061>, which is a bug Tony filed to > merge the Local State and Preferences files. Both files hold user > preferences, but the idea is that Local State holds prefs that are common to > all user profiles, and Preferences is unique to each user (thus it is in the > Default/ user profile directory). We don't actually support using multiple > user profiles though, it seems. > The win for combining them is to remove another file read on startup. Also, > the distinction is confusing and some stuff is arguably in the wrong place > (e.g. browser window dimensions are in Local State). However, the loss is > that we will lose the ability to have multiple user profiles in one user > data directory (don't know what our plans are for this, if any). > This patch is pretty large so I'd like some feedback before starting it. > > -- Evan Stade > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
