On 25 Apr 2002, at 10:02, Philip Aker wrote: > Phil Daley wrote:
> >> I don't think we're on the same page here. On Macintosh, there > >> are individual user settings when the system is configured for > >> multiple users. That's not what I've been trying to illustrate. > > > No, no. Each OS installed on a windows system has profiles > > installed in the %SystemRoot% directory. Typically, there is > > only one profile on a single user machine. > > Then that's one of the differences which I've been trying to get > across. There is no one root directory accessible to different > systems running MacOS. Each system contains it's own > configuration(s). Ditto for Windows. > >> There are two main notions being discussed. The default > >> installation location for software that does not offer the > >> user a choice, and the names and places of where one keeps > >> one's applications and documents. > > > But the latter should be configurable, per application. > > The documents folder a particular application uses may or may > not be configurable by an application. Finale offers us these > kinds of choices. Other software does not. That's a developer > responsibility on the Macintosh. But if there's an OS-defined document folder, that should be settable by the user. It should not be hardwired into the OS or into application software (regardless of whether or not it is relative to the boot folder). > Another way of looking at it is that the OS should be > configurable as to whether or not the user should "include all > fonts" in PostScript and EPS files generated by her applications > even if she doesn't have a PostScript printer. That's a huge > problem with OSes from Redmond WA. It's not a problem with MacOS. I knew that the discussion would descend into platform bashing. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
