No. Hidden home directory files traditionally have a special meaning. They are initialisation resources.
~/.something is a place a program will go to look for startup options (in a particular order after /var/something ... so that global and multi user configs can live together) I know some recent Linux apps have started putting userworld resources into dot directories, but this is bad practice imho. 2c andy. On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:49:53 +0200 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With this release of Pd-extended, all platforms have default > locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. I just had a > thought, perhaps ~/.pd would be a better directory than ~/pd. Any > thoughts on that? > > Here's how it is now: > > GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd > Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd > Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/ > Application Data/Pd > > .hc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- Use the source _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
