On or about Tue, 08 May 2001 08:34:20 +0100, Gervase Markham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> allegedly wrote:
>> I was starting to feel in the minority. <grin> Actually, what I
>> hate more than the salting is the fact that the user community has
>> been given no choice in the matter. (And saying you can write your
>> own code or pay money, etc., isn't really the point.)
>
>Well it is, really. As mpt is fond of saying, correctly, we can't have a
>pref for everything. The more we have, the more conditional forks in the
>code there are, and the greater its complexity and the greater the
>possibility of bugs. Those who write the code get to make the choices
>(subject to review and approval, and a spec if there is one.)
I agree you cannot have a pref for everything, but the ability to set
one's own preferred user directory is pretty basic. For someone like
me who likes to keep daily backups of my "c:\Data" directory and
subdirectories, which contains pretty much everything, having to also
back up a cryptically-named subdirectory of Mozilla is a big pain.
Especially because I'm no longer allowed to set the cache location
either (which I don't *want* to back up daily).
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Mike Koenecke
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