Re: SystemPreferences

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am Samstag, 25.02.06 um 11:47 Uhr schrieb Dennis Leeuw:

> I am not so much in favour of an ApplicationSupport directory. I do 
> not understand it from a design point of view.

This way you can separately store  data that is generated by the 
application but neither a preferences file nor some data that the 
application is intended to produce.

Examples:

cache file, cookie file, profile of a web browser; index files of a 
mail application; color swatches, custom brushes of an image processing 
application;

> If you want a design where a folder is the application you should put 
> as much as possible within that folder. Not starting to re-invent the 
> /usr/share directory... more below :)

All that stuff doesn't belong into the application bundle itself since 
I consider it user specific/private data that should not be moved 
around if the application itself is copied into another place, used by 
another user or the like. So it belongs to 
/Users/username/Library/Application Support

regards, Lars


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