[RFC] User Accesable Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Sat Mar 27 23:11:49 UTC 2004
Le sam, 27/03/2004 à 17:34 -0500, Gary L Greene Jr a écrit :
> This is a proposal for a standard to accommodate the accessibility of the
> filesystem by end-users. We request discussion on this as a new standard. The
> URL to get to the document is:
>
> http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/uafhs/
From a usability POW hidden files (and directories) are very bad.
I must admit I'm a bit horrified by the number of new hidden roots
you're suggesting to create (not only you duplicate classic / topdirs
but you also enshrine stuff like fonts that doesnt exist on the system
root).
My proposal would be simple :
1. use a single or at most two-three top-level dirs in ~ (etc and the
rest)
2. at this point you can probably not hide them since they won't result
in too much clutter
3. do not try to keep current dotfiles/dotdirs in your spec but move
them to your clean file layout
As far as I know current $HOME clutter is what's keeping some people
from using it as their desktop (even though that the natural unix way).
Cleaning up the mess would certainly help there.
A good point is the way you follow / FHS layout instead of reinventing
yet another convention.
Anyway - I'm pleased to see someone working on this ! Most people seem
to have given up on ever cleaning up the home legacy dotfile mess.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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