Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2479 mails)

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

caliper caliper

2009/11/17 Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> James Knott said the following on 11/17/2009 08:28 AM:
> > >
> > That info has to be saved somewhere.  Where do you want it to be?
>
> Indeed.
> *NIX takes the attitude that this is a 'local solution to a local problem'.
>
> Windows has the Registry.  A central solution.
> Many people think that *IS* the problem.
>
> Which would you rather have?
>
> Personally I don't like the idea of one huge "SPOF".
>
> Especially when its as confusing and undocumented as it is.
> By comparison, *NIX config files and parameter files are models of
> clarity.  If you don't believe me, red through the files in /etc and
> tell me how well they are commented - locally; tell me if they relate
> clearly to the subsystems they affect.
>
> So, since that information has to be saved somewhere, where else do you
> want to be?
>
> In /etc/dolphin/ something ...?
>
> Well, suppose you have a directory /home/david/applications which has
> /dev/VGMain/applications mounted.  All the dolphin-esque information s
> in /etc/dolphin/..... somewhere, right?
>
> Now unmount that and mount /dev/VGMain/appl2 which has exactly the same
> directory structure but different files.
>
> Now what?  All that central information is WRONG.
>
> But if the information is in a .directory file in each directory it will
> always be in context.
>
> As I keep saying in various forums
>
>        Context is Everything

As the files are KDE-specific, I would expect the information
contained within them to be under ~/.kde or in another KDE-specific
place. Certainly not littered all across the filesystem, hidden or
not. Apache can get away with this for .htaccess as the filesystems
used with apache are generally used _only_ for that purpose (in the
web tree) but I do not see my ~ directory as such.

Like mentioned previously, that data will be moved to Akonadi one day.


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