On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:06:08AM +0000, Matthew King wrote: >Why do people like MDI applications?
Because they first used computers in 199X when MDI was briefly The Standard Way Of Doing Things On Windows? (Given the usual Windows innovation system, I assume that it had been briefly standard on Apple machines a year or so earlier.) >[2] Because otherwise we'd never know it's a directory. I think the idea is that one might want /etc/$application.conf (file) and /etc/$application.conf.d/ (directory) on the same system. Still ugly, as are any file extensions really. Roger
