Gervase Markham 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.)
>...
Right. I don't like the salted folder either -- it's an insult to a Mac
user who expects every file and folder on their system to have a
semi-understandable name. (the DOS-like `.slt' on the end of the name
increases its offensiveness.) But I'd rather have the salting always
happen, than present users with an inevitably incomprehensible pref for
it when they create a new profile.
At least Mozilla complies with the other basic tenet of the Mac
filesystem -- that (to a large extent) you can move or rename a folder
wherever you like, and nothing will break. I can get rid of the salted
folder, placing the profile folder itself directly under `Profiles', and
Mozilla will happily let me specify the new location of the profile
folder next time it starts up.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component owner
<http://mozilla.org/>
