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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx"Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx"
From: roland <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:38:27 +0200 hi! >I don't see any problems with dotfiles, even for windows users. Normally >you create them once with a script and don't care about them afterwards. >Copying and moving is no problem with the explorer once they are >created. However, if there's a majority voting for an underscore-name, >it's ok for me, too. i`m from the "heterogenous win/unix world" :) - but i would favour using underscores instead of dots in general. why? you cannot expect "untechnical average windoze users" understand why they cannot rename a dotfile to something else and vice-versa. think of someone trying to rename .rockbox to .rockbox.old he will wonder and/or get confused - and i see no point why someone should potentially stumble accross such error. probably users use tools/scripts(vbs?) for backing up files - and these could fail with dotfiles, too (as explorer does). i don`t think it needs others being "educated" by us unix-guys just for the purpose of: "hey, look how braindead windows-explorer is regarding dotfiles! we are coming from unix and we like dotfiles. dotfiles are way cool and win32 subsystem supports them! so we use them!" :) regards roland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Stemmer" <groovingandi_at_gmx.de> To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:35 PM Subject: Re: new extension for talkbox directory clip: ".dirname.tbx" > Brian Wolven wrote: > > Placing them anywhere *but* the directory where they are to be spoken is > > just asking for trouble, increased code complexity, and myriad > > possibilities for synchronization errors. Change the '.' to an '_', and > > change 'dirname' and the extension to anything else, as long as it's > > fixed. But don't decouple the clips from the folders. That's begging for > > trouble, IMO. I think it would also be pretty easy to look for either > > '.dirname' or '_dirname' without doing a fullblown directory search. > > This would allow UNIX users to keep the files hidden, if they so choose, > > and allow windows users who prefer the explorer interface to manage > > their files more easily. > > Just to add my opinion (in case anybody cares...): > I prefer having the clips within the mp3 directories to prevent any > synchronization problems. I don't care about the name and the extension > of the clips, as long as it's more or less self explaining and not too > cryptic. > I don't see any problems with dotfiles, even for windows users. Normally > you create them once with a script and don't care about them afterwards. > Copying and moving is no problem with the explorer once they are > created. However, if there's a majority voting for an underscore-name, > it's ok for me, too. > > Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-04-15 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |