On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Chris Nandor wrote:
I hate dot directories; on a Mac, I consider them wrong. But you're right
that it is questionable to have it where it is. Macs have a Library
folder, and that is where it should be, in Library/Application
Support/iTunes/.
The rest of your hate I have no problem with. But PLEASE no more dot
directories, unless you are a Unix app.
Why do you consider it wrong to have dot directories on a Mac?
I think BSD underneath is one of the good points of OSX, so the
Unix way of doing things makes sense.
Note that I only want the configuration files to be hidden. It's
probably appropriate to generate a bunch of directories for storing
documents, labeled Pictures/ and Music/ and Documents/ and so
on--provided that I can a) set the applications to use different
directories by default, and b) remove the default directories I'm
no longer using. Ordinary users wouldn't be affected by the hidden
configuration files, because anyone who would consider editing them
by hand (instead of using the applications) really ought to know how
to find them.
I have my own naming system for things, and seeing all these ucfirst
directories messing up my sorting irritates me. This is all the more
true when one of the directory names clashes with a name I want to use,
in a different case. I hate the stupid case insensitivity of Macs.
On my last laptop I went so far as to create a 'home/' directory in
my home directory, and use it for all my stuff, while letting Apple
have my default home directory. That was a pretty irritating solution.
- A
