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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!rnzll3!sys3.pe1chl!rob From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Reply-To: pe1chl@wab-tis.rabobank.nl Organization: PE1CHL Message-ID: <DoIL6I.AA5@pe1chl.ampr.org> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ia7im$i4m@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4if9gb$4kh@park.uvsc.edu> <4iibd2$ng@EARTH.baylor.edu> <314E1023.2A7C1004@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:25:29 GMT Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19754 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15777 In <314E1023.2A7C1004@netcom.com> Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes: >> >2) Desktop position information for an icon >> This is not good for a multi-user environment. No two users will want >> icons in the same place. >In that case, only the owner could set icon location. When a user brings >up a folder containing a file he owns, it goes in the proper place. If >he doesn't own it, it would be aligned in a grid with the other icons >(NOT put in the place that the owner chooses). This soloution is still >better than whatever hacks are used on systems without EA's. User preferences should be stored in a file for user preferences, not hidden somewhere in the program file. The preferences should be transferrable from one system to the next without copying the program along. Rob -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Rob Janssen rob@knoware.nl | BBS: +31-302870036 (2300-0730 local) | | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8WNO.#UTR.NLD.EU | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+