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In article <SCOTT.92Apr13171021@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.170727.21749@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) writes:
>>The neatest thing to do would be for developers to agree to put
>>their stuff into a .Apps directory - one hidden file in your account
>>with appropriate subdirectories for the requirements of each app.
>>I was thinking that this could go into the .NeXT directory but it
>>would probably screw up upgrades etc.
>
>OK, should it be ~/.Apps?  This has other decent possibilities.
>What if you allowed a /.LocalApps directory which could store
>system-wide info?  Of course, how does one go about modifying that
>info?  You'd need a special superuser version or toggle to do it.
>But, ~/.Apps is a good idea.  Or, how about a default owned by
>System or GLOBAL called HiddenFiles, which could default to ~/.Apps,
>yet could be changed for other programs individually.
>
>What of the structure within ~/.Apps?  I would say that groups like
>RightBrain, Stone Design, and Lighthouse should use
><HiddenFiles>/RightBrain, <HiddenFiles>/Stone, etc.  <HiddenFiles>
>being "the value of the HiddenFiles default".  Note the lack of a
>'.' on the subfile names.  this makes sense, because you've already
>hidden the entire directory.  You can only assume that someone who
>comes looking into it already knows how to find hidden dot files,
>so why make their job tougher?
>

This idea makes a whole lot of sense.  I like the flexibility of 
dwrite -g NXHiddenFiles .Apps
so that everyone has the opportunity to set this default to where
they would like their hidden files to appear.

I think Scott has a good idea in setting some defacto standard about
how we organize our shared space in this directory.  Publisher name
or project name would work fine.  What doesn't work is something like
<NXHiddenFiles>/data or <NXHiddenFiles>/editor.  We just need to make
sure that the names are mutually exclusive.  It doesn't have to look
terribly pretty as we have covered it in a hidden directory anyway, right?

Steve Boker
Data Transforms.


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