On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:32:19AM -0700, Juan Lang wrote:
Folks, I'm still working on the shell path functions, and I was thinking of changing the directory layout for the shell directories (desktop, start menu, my documents and whatnot) from the Windows 95-ish way to the NT-ish way. That is, rather than being children of c:\windows, they'd generally be children of c:\documents and settings<username>.
Please remember that under Windows 95 with multiple users or Windows NT 4, per-user settings are stored under C:\WINDOWS\Profiles<username> or C:\WINNT\Profiles<username> (if I remember rightly). The actual paths are stored in the Registry; or are you just thinking about changing the default locations for new installations?
Either layout is fine for testing-only installations, but in a production environment I would probably point the "Desktop" to $HOME/Desktop (shared with KDE) and "My Documents" to $HOME/ . The have been regular questions on the users list asking how to do things like this.