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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.

We still do this.  The .RightBrain directory is a garbage dump for lots
of small but important files that are critical to the program but not
important for users to see (however, they are documented in the Help
panel for people who want to know what is being done to their systems).

I like the idea of ~/Library/RightBrain except for a couple of things.
First, people sometimes delete things that they see if they know they
didn't create them.  Second, I know that a lot of people (myself among
them) don't like the creation of "visible" directories in their home
directory.  For example, I don't like "fmdictionary" and "fmtemplates"
one little bit.  Surprisingly enough, a lot of people don't have
~/Library directories, and creating one is an annoyance if all you
do is put your temporary files in it.

We decided to compromise with .RightBrain.  It's reasonably clean,
and it turns out that we've got four or five files that can get created
in there, depending on which applications you have, and it's a great
solution to the "crud" problem.

I, too, dislike .achihg, .TetrisScores, .createImages, and whatever.

I do have to point out that Edit, a NeXT application, requires you to
name files ".pipedict" and ".commanddict" to use its extensible menus,
which adds to the crud.  The "vacation" program accounts for a few, the
Csh for a lot more, /bin/mail, NewsGrazer, aaaaargh.

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