Note that even upgrading Windows OS from XP to Vista involves changing paths:
c:\Documents and Settings -> c:\Users
Do we ever write paths such as this?
Local state should be data that can be thrown away without much loss
of user experience. Generally these things include window positions,
file system paths etc.
It is much more desirable to share personal data (the contents of my
NTP, omnibox, etc) across machines and OSes.
-Ben
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, John Abd-El-Malek<j...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Brett Wilson <bre...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Avi Drissman<a...@google.com> wrote:
>>> > I've heard people proclaim the principle of being able to copy a
>>> > profile
>>> > across systems as being a deciding factor for certain changes (e.g. the
>>> > history epoch change). However, it doesn't seem to be universally held
>>> > or
>>> > obeyed, and I'm not sure to the extent to which it can be obeyed. So
>>> > some
>>> > questions:
>>> >
>>> > - Is "profile platform independence" a guiding principle?
>>> > - To what extent do we work to make it reality?
>>>
>>> I don't think this is a guiding principle. We should do it when it's
>>> reasonable. I think most places it is reasonable to do so.
>>>
>>> > - In the cases where it can't be kept (e.g. download folder path)
>>> > should we
>>> > keep a copy for each platform?
>>>
>>> I don't think so.
>>>
>>> > - Is it worth rewriting today's code that doesn't conform (e.g.
>>> > extensions
>>> > and themes which use full paths and platform path separators)?
>>>
>>> I don't think so, although I do wonder if full paths are necessary,
>>
>> It was painful to remove all of the full paths from mozilla's profile. It
>> was something people wanted because they wanted to be able to just copy
>> their profile from one computer to another. Think of moving a profile from
>> WinXP to Vista where the path to your windows profile changes.
>
> I think moving between different versions of the OS is a simpler and more
> common problem than moving between different OSs. I could come up with
> convoluted scenarios about why I'd want to move my profile between different
> OSs, but if it's not a common user request, then it's not worth the effort
> IMO.
>>
>> -darin
>>
>>>
>>> even if we're not worried about platform portability (not knowing
>>> anything about what these are used for if there are any).
>>>
>>> Brett
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>
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