Erik Harris wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 02:55:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Fenton) > wrote: > > >>Every multi-user OS must have the capability for different users >>(i.e., different login names) to store settings independently for >>each of the users. Even in Win9x, if you have your system set up to >> > [...] > > I know WHY Moz does it, but like you, I hate this "feature" of the newer > Windows versions, and much prefer programs that keep themselves self > contained, putting their multi-user profiles under their own directory where, > IMHO, they rightly belong, for the reason you cited among others.
The only problem is that they don't "rightly belong" there. User-specific settings etc. belong in a user-specific location, not in a program-specific location. Unix got this right a long time ago, and MS is *finally* beginning to do so. Frankly it blows me away that Mozilla does as well. > Most > programs still do things the way I consider "right" (though MS disagrees with > me on what is "right" and I'm sure a lot of folks here do, too), Actually, Unix disagreed with you many years before Microsoft ever did. > so when > someone tells me to look in a particular program's profile directory, my > first instinct is to look for a profile directory within the program's > installation directory, not an unnecessarily long pathname in a centralized > location decreed by Microsoft. :) > Decreed by the Single Unix Specification, actually. And lord knows how many precedents to that. You'll just have to change your insticts from what was wildly wrong to what is far less wrong. Do you still install all your software to the root directory like we had to in the bad-old-days of DOS? Of course not.
