Re: System, Slash, Home, Network
Re: System, Slash, Home, Network
- Subject: Re: System, Slash, Home, Network
- From: joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:17:37 -0600
John Gnaegy:
/Library - referred to as "slash library". If you want to add things,
add them here. This level is usable by everyone and modifiable by
everyone. This is the best place to install profiles.
Best?...most classic apps can't find that folder.
Every time I install any application the first thing I do is track
down all their useless and senseless specific profile locals and
butcher them into place.
If you put all your profiles in your
OS9>SystemFolder>ColorsyncProfilesFolder and place an alias for this
folder in the /Library/ColorSync folder (and others) then you have
one location for all apps regardless of OS. (Don't know about OSX
printer profile specifics...because I don't use the OSX printflow
except to create device independent postscript files...however I do
also track down and kill a lot of PPD resource files for printers
I'll never use).
Home/Library - referred to as "home library". Only usable and
modifiable by the user. If your username is John, then this folder is
~John, referred to as "tilde John". The ~ is shorthand for the whole
path to your home folder. When you run the Default Calibrator it
creates profiles here.
See above...same operating rule applies. No dupes and I have yet to
run into an OSX application that can't follow.
So I haven't been swayed by any arguments for convoluted profile locations.
There could and should be one for system default palette profiles
only, one for all others. If a user needs to dup then they should dup
into their own ~user/library. Or simply make the Classic OS colorsync
folder admin only access privileges.
The be-all end-all is: while CPUs, OSs and apps have become more
sophisticated in their approach the user still has to hack a rational
setup into place. Nothing has really changed...but it does keep
looking better and better and getting faster and faster.
...and Apple is doing a good job too, John.
;0)
--
joel johnstone
Color Canuck
(A Lesser-known of the Great Northern Crowned Joels)
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