Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:03:52 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > > >>I'm using pygame to write a game called Bombz which needs to save some >>data in a directory associated with it. In Unix/Linux I'd probably use >>"~/.bombz", in Windows something like >>"C:\Documents And Settings\<user>\Applicacation Data\Bombz". > > > In Windows, you shouldn't hard-code the drive letter. I don't know how you > find out what the correct value is, but hard-coding it is just Bad. > > As a Linux user, I really am sick of every damn application, script and > program under the sun filling the top level of my home directory with > dot-files. > > I wish the Linux Standard Base folks would specify that settings files > should all go into a subdirectory like ~/settings rather than filling up > the home directory with cruft. That was acceptable in the days when people > only looked at their files with ls, but in these days of GUI file > managers, it is ridiculous that there are more than 100 dot files and > directories in my home directory. > > <tilting at windmills> > > Can I ask developers to break with the obsolete and annoying habit of > creating user-specific config files as ~/.app-name and use > ~/settings/app-name instead? > > </tilting at windmills> > > While we're asking for the improbable, perhaps we could make that
~/.settings/app-name Ssh has used the ~/.ssh directory for a long time to avoid the need for lots of little dot files, and this works quite well. Good luck in your campaign! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.pycon.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list