On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:57:15PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
It needs to be an API switch really as it's a per-app thing, only programs written to expect it should get UNIX names. But this is similar to the discussion we had before and what form the API should take (no firm decision made).
Actually, there are two independent issues here: 1. How paths are presented to the user This is user preference, and should be a registry setting 2. How paths are presented to the app This is something that needs to be per app. One way to do it would be to follow Miscrosoft and ornate apps somehow (the same they do for themable apps) via some sort of manifest that would request Unix paths instead of DOS ones. Same mechanism could be used for other things, like requesting native open dialogs instead of ours, etc.