On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Februar 2003 11:44 schrieb bb: > > On Thursday 06 February 2003 01:43, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > Why would I store important user data like the default address book, > > > bookmarks and all that in a hidden directory where the user has to search > > > very hard if the structure philosophy is unknown? > > > > is it really so hard to find these files? IMHO it isn't ... ;) > > Yes, because IIRC even in konq, default view is to not show hidden files.
Just as modifying/deleting hidden files is not the default reason why they exist. So all day use of a program means _using_ not configuring it - showing these files in nonspecial cases by default would break the concept of delimination of the configuration and the usage part. Moreover strange application behaviour caused by bugs is _not_ the _default_ wanted behaviour. Therefore the "design" of the file/directory structure used by an application is (or should be) based on ease of use primarily - nothing else. Björn
