It's not mozilla in particular, it's the other settings, such as Plug- ins, Sounds, Logs, Keychains, Addresses, etc.
When preferences and data is stored individually for each application, you must maintain it for each application rather than using a system-wide (for you) configuration. That's a big deal in the long term. Does mozilla reference .fonts? Does StarOffice? I've never heard of a standard that specifies .fonts and .icons. Gnome, for example, has its own fonts directory. So does evolution. What I'd like to see would be a standards definition for how user- focused applications should store their preferences and access user- level configuration data (such as fonts). Without the standard, every application will have to re-invent the wheel for fonts and application storage. I don't agree on the tools scope -- it installs packages at a user level. Without standards (or even guidelines), it makes the user experience confusing and writing applications more difficult. On May 31, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > How is ~/Library/Safari/ any different to ~/.mozilla/ and in any > case if you aren't that application you really have no business > poking around in there. > > As for the ~/Library/Fonts & ~/Library/Fonts examples we already > have ~/.fonts/ and ~/.icons. If there are generic places like that > for other data files then thats an issue for the application/ > framework that first delivers them. > > What you are asking for is in my opinion really far out of scope > for the tools that put bits onto disk which is what this project is > about. > > -- > Darren J Moffat > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss ----- Gregory Shaw, IT Architect Phone: (303) 673-8273 Fax: (303) 673-8273 ITCTO Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. 1 StorageTek Drive MS 4382 greg.shaw at sun.com (work) Louisville, CO 80028-4382 shaw at fmsoft.com (home) "When Microsoft writes an application for Linux, I've Won." - Linus Torvalds
