Re: Spectrum 2.1 Features

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4vb30u$c33@news.bconnex.net>,
Jeff Blakeney <jefbla@bconnex.net> wrote:
>It seems that some people are trying to make GS/OS act like Windows
>which stores all sorts of stuff in the Windows and Windows/System
>directories even though they may only be used by one program on your
>system.  (And nine times out of ten that program is no longer on your
>system but its support files are still using up your hard drive
>space.)

   Dropping a load of .DLLs and other stuff in the system folder is
one thing, but preferences do have a history of sitting in the System
folder for Macs.

>They started this silliness with Spectrum v2.0 when they put the
>preferences file in the System/Preferences folder.  At least they put
>in the option to move the preferences file to your Spectrum folder
>which is exactly what I did immediately after it was created.

   Giving applications the option to keep preferences files with them
is fine, but if you've ever looked at the number of files in the
preferences folder on a mac, you'll see quite a lot of stuff
nowadays. [The small preferences things are fine; it's when programs
start dropping 500K binaries in there is when you wonder what rock the
programmers are smoking when they read 'Preferences']

   I've written a few programs that use */SYSTEM/Preferences, though
all of them are Desk Accs, CDevs, and the like. I really like not
having my DESK.ACCS, CDevs, and SYSTEM.SETUP folder full of little
garbage files; I'd like to move them off to one convenient
place. [Plus, all of my preferences files are <512 bytes, so they
don't eat much space at all.]

Nathan Mates
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