Re: Bundle Identifiers - and application support directory
Re: Bundle Identifiers - and application support directory
- Subject: Re: Bundle Identifiers - and application support directory
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:28:04 -0400
On Jul 23, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:43:04 -0600, Kaydell Leavitt said:
>
>> I've wondered about why Mac apps put their app's name on their folders
>> in the directories "Application Support". It seems to me that this is
>> just asking for problems and isn't localizable.
>>
>> I noticed that in Lion and Mountain Lion that the directory ~/Library is
>> now invisible by default. Maybe Apple is starting to say that the
>> folders within this folder such as "Application Support" aren't for
>> "human consumption" anymore.
>
> If the folder's contents aren't for "human consumption" anymore, why do you worry about localisation?
>
> Also, I've never understood why ~/Library is invisible but /System and /Library are not...
100%. It unpleasantly reminds me of when Homer Simpson started bubble wrapping everything in his house lest Maggie hit a sharp edge.
All this "hiding" and "every app is an island" seems just like what we did back when we created Shockwave in 1995.
Every SW app in the browser could write their own file to a common prefs folder (think Documents, Music, Contacts).
The first thing I did (after we shipped the plugin) was create an API in Shockwave's scripting language to a prefs file as a communication system between apps. It had a rudimentary locking mechanism (think pessimistic locking on a file write level with one all/none flag and one file). The file had sections with the applications' identifiers and within each identifier section, the public variables the authors wanted to expose, etc. We quickly bypassed the purpose of the plugin's application sequestration and had apps that made these little data stores and exchanged data and files at will.
But an open subset of the file system with requests certainly would have been nicer.
Back to iOS and it seems to be certainly creeping in to the Mac OS, it's a shame that we have this attempt to jam every document into the application that created it. "Every App is an Island" and some of our folders being hidden while more important (and more dangerous ones) aren't certainly isn't conducive to the fun we had that got many of us using Macs in the first place.
Certainly seems like bubble wrapping parts of the OS lest we fall and hit our heads.
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