This would become a security risk. By doing that, you allow an
application to modify itself which is a very bad thing. And what
about upgrading the application? By deleting the bundle which
contained your preferences, you'd start clean on a new version.
That'd get on my nerves real quick.
I think the current system is very elegant. I don't see all these
crazy files spread everywhere because it's rare an application puts
things in strange places anyway. They are usually just single files
which you can drag-and-drop install and you're done - exactly as you
want, right? If you really want to kill all remnants of an
application, get AppZapper. But when I delete an application, I tend
to want my files to be left alone.
--
Thom McGrath, <http://www.thezaz.com/>
"You realize you've created God in your own image when God hates all
the same people you do."
On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
The OS could handle permissions - if intelligent enough. If a user has
rights to use an app the OS should ensure that he gets his /her own
set of
preferences automatically.
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