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In article <1992Apr10.070511.291@en.ecn.purdue.edu> davis@en.ecn.purdue.edu  
(Robert E Davis) writes:
| 	Another solution to consider is something that Right Brain
| used to do (I use the past tense because I'm not sure if their latest
| mini-apps use this method -- maybe they do).  They put all the stuff
| in a .RightBrain folder in your home directory, kind of like the .NeXT
| directory.  This might be even better than the Library/Appname idea
| because it fits with the idea that no user should need to know
| "technical" details.  Only the Unix Experts see the dot directories
| anyway.  Why would a non-Expert want to see a bunch of garbage like
| Tetris scores that you can't even read cluttering up your Library?
| 

	In my opinion, this is WRONG!  Applications MUST provide users with  
the capability of selecting the location of such files/directories, with a  
developer-defined default if the user is too lazy/ignorant to decide where to  
relocate them.  However, this default SHOULD not locate the information under  
a user's home directory!

	Dot-files under $HOME should only be used when critical start-up  
information is needed by a program (i.e., .profile in /bin/sh) and when the  
use of the defaults database in unwarranted (although I can't think of a  
reason when this would be true).

	We already clutter our homes with (useless) UNIX .files; why clutter  
it even more by having NeXTSTEP app files located there also?!  As someone  
suggested, use ~/Library/<appname> instead!!!!!

	GAUHDBTHU (that's Klingon for Give A User's Home Directory BACK To  
The User).  8^)

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