working towards Subsurface 2.0

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 07:11 -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>>> Sounds good.  It might suggest ~/subsurface_dives.xml if ~/Documents
>> doesn't already exist on Linux, since not all distributions use the
>> Documents folder by default.
>> 
>> I would like a consistent default on Linux - or this gets just ugly. 
>> This is one of the major shortcomings of Linux as desktop as far as I
>> am concerned. With everyone doing their own thing, there is no clear
>> structure and no defaults to rely on. 
>> I actually thought that ~/Documents existed everywhere… 
>> 
>> So people would prefer something like ~/subsurface_dives.xml to us
>> creating a directory? I dislike cluttering the user's home
>> directory...
> 
> IMHO, this is where having it set in the preferences window solves the
> problem. Anyone can put there whatever they want.

Yeah, that's the Linux way of life. You can have it anywhere, just use the settings.
I'm sorry, that's why Linux has no chance on the desktop. And I say this, writing
this email on a Mac :-)

Anyway, I'll implement ~/subsurface_dives.xml and that's what we should document.

/D