Re: GtkFileChooser API work [getting OT]

[Marcin Antczak <marcin antczak e-dev pl>]

W liÅ?cie z Å?ro, 03-09-2003, godz. 21:03, Sean Middleditch pisze: 
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:46, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:23, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:09, iain wrote:
> > > > iain
> > > > [1] Incidently what the buck does /etc mean? And /var for that
> > > > matter...oh yeah, and /usr
> > > 
> > > etc: Etcetera (configuration files)
> > 
> > Extended Tool Chest
> 
> Or Extremely Terrible Cognomen... ;-)
> 
> Seriously, the standard UNIX names are completely awful.  If people are
> desperate to introduce heirarchy into home folders, can it at least be
> done with meaninginful names?  Why not .Config instead of .etc? 
> .Applications instead of .usr?  That way it's both guru and newbie
> friendly.

You are absolutely right, standard names are awful but please when we
have context sensitive filesystem then use:

.config not .Config
.applications not .Applications


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Marcin Antczak <marcin antczak e-dev pl>