Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:39271 comp.sys.mac.programmer:9396 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!well!wdh From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Macintosh One-Liners Message-ID: <13877@well.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 89 22:24:09 GMT References: <221@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> <4452@internal.Apple.COM> Reply-To: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann) Distribution: na Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 22 In article <4452@internal.Apple.COM> carl@Apple.COM (Carl C. Hewitt) writes: >If I'm not mistaken, Apple DTS has officially sanctified the use of a folder >called "Preferences" in the System Folder for preference files. Programs >have to be written to know about this folder, but if programmers start using >it, it will have the nice effect of reducing the number of preference files >in the system folder to a manageable number. I think you are mistaken. There was a discussion quite some time ago (at one of the Developer Conferences) about just this problem, and Darin Adler said that DTS was thinking about some way to solve the problem, but I haven't heard a peep. The problem is bigger than it appears: aside from the issue of what to call it in English, what happens when you go to another country (I know, if they don't speak English... 8->). As a user, I'd like to see the solution extended to support folders for cdevs and INITs and etc. I suspect (I hope: scott douglass, are you listening?) that the system 7 finder will address this issue a bit better. As far as I'm concerned, this should be a system level support: SysEnvirons or Gestalt or whatever would return a dirID for the location of the preferences folder, and somebody else (Finder, Control Panel General cdev, whatever) would let the user name it what they pleased. -Bill