[CREATE] All users profile instead of common files on Windows?

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Thu Aug 17 12:02:29 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:28 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > ...
> > Cool, I'm curious as well what your interest is in this project and also
> > what you would like to do to push it along?
> 
> I'm interested in creative software (mostly from a computer science 
> point of view) and I would love it if applications would share more. 
> Other than that, this specific topic (where to store which kind of file) 
> is an old favorite of mine, I once tried making the Program Files 
> directory read-only on my sister's computer, it's amazing how many 
> applications store all kinds of files in there (settings, templates and 
> even temporary files).

> > Also, how can I assist you to get where you want to get?
> 
> Looking at your roadmap I don't think there is much I could contribute 
> at this point, but I'm monitoring the mailing list and will probably 
> visit the site and wiki once in a while.

I created a page that shows how you (and others) can help:

http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Help

> What might help though is a more concrete list of todo's, or something 
> similar (the list of bugs/feature requests is awfully empty for 
> example). I don't really have any specific idea of what I'd like to 
> improve myself (apart from the directories used), but if it was clear 
> what other people would like to see done (but aren't able to do 
> themselves for whatever reason) I might be able to help out in some cases.

http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Help

> In general it would be nice to know more about the level of 
> participation of the projects mentioned on the wiki and what areas need 
> more attention (preferrably along with a work breakdown structure of 
> course).

Yes, maybe you help us by identifying this on the wiki via this page:
http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Help

Jon

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