On 4/26/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > > ...making things easier for users... > > Why should the user care about this? By definition, things in TMPDIR > are ephemeral and don't usually get noticed by users
All desktops expose TMPDIR to the users. KDE and Enlightenment have bookmarks in the dialogs, Mozilla stores downloads in TMPDIR by default and Opera downloads files for plugins and external applications there. The users know about that and use TMPDIR Josh