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It's standard convention for (mostly GUI) applications to visually hide files and directories that start with a ., I don't know what you think a hidden folder i
by smcleod 1y ago
It's standard convention for (mostly GUI) applications to visually hide files and directories that start with a ., I don't know what you think a hidden folder is if it's not this and it has been widely accepted in the industry as a whole (except in Windows) for a very long time.
What you seem to be confusing it with is file system ACLs, something that *nix for quite some time. In fact it was available on consumer desktop environments in the early 2000s - roughly the same era as Windows (when Microsoft brought their NTFS filesystem to the desktop).
Anyway, don't feed the trolls and all that, you're welcome to enjoy your windows ecosystem - just don't expect all engineers to write their software specifically to cater for it.
- delta_p_delta_x 1y agoI am confused. My point was that if engineers target Windows at all, they ought to do it properly, but you retorted with 'I don't target Windows'. Okay, well and good, then my advice isn't for you and developers like you. Then again, you said 'don't expect all engineers to write their software specifically to cater for it', seemingly ignoring my and essentially every parent commenter's plea for developers targeting non-Linux platforms to be good citizens on that platform, and adopt platform conventions. If you're not writing software for Windows, then sure, no need to think about Windows. If you are, or you are going to, then this platform convention business needs to happen and needs to be done correctly, whatever your thoughts on Windows, or, in the thread's case, macOS, where application data should go in `~/Library/Application\ Support` and not dot-dirs in $HOME. The conversation digressed into cherry-picking my explanation of 'hidden file'. I'm not sure the troll epithet is fair.