Richard,
this also striked me when I first noticed that. But this is the
standard behaviour, not only for user apps but also for system level
apps. Just to a "ls -a" in your home folder... even MacOS X uses this
for many *NIX ported apps...
dot files are no exactly hidden, you can access them as normal files,
they are just hidden from normal "ls" output...
and yes Richard, I really hate this "standard". For example standard
place for placing terminal preference commands and configuration on
MacOS X is .bashrc which does not appear in Finder unless you
explicity tell Finder to display hidden files... ARGH!!!!!
Andre
On May 12, 2006, at 12:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Andre Garzia wrote:
On May 11, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
Sorry, I feel I've asked this before, but I can't find the answer in
the archives.
Where do Linux users expect preferences to be saved?
In Macs I use the specialFolderPath("Preferences").
In Windows I use specialFolderPath(26).
What is the Linux equivalent?
they expect it to be saved in their home folder ($HOME or ~) with a
name beggining with a "." (so that it be hidden) like:
.mySweetPrefsFile
so you can use URL "file:~/.mySweetPrefs"
They expect files to be concealed?
Personally I don't trust apps that hide things from me, and I'm very
surprised that the uber gurus who use Linux actually prefer hidden
files.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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