[Bf-taskforce25] Proposal: .B.blend -> startup.blend

[Campbell Barton]

+1
on linux .B.blend is in the home dir. Id prefer it be in the .blender/
dir so as not to dump more crap in my home dir then needed.

from...
/home/me/.B.blend
to...
/home/me/.blender/startup.blend

same goes for /home/me/.Blog

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Kernon Dillon <kernond at gmail.com> wrote:
> +10
> I think the more we move away from cryptic names the better.
>
> Also, if the console window will still exist in 2.5 it would be great if the
> window was given a descriptive title (e.g. Blender Console). This would make
> it easier to switch between applications because, currently, it's too
> similar to the main Blender window (similar title, same icon).
>
> Thanks for considering it,
> Kernon
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed the new .b25.blend addition, which got me thinking a bit.
>>
>> At winter camp, we agreed that we should move to better folder
>> locations for resource files, especially on OSX. For example, moving
>> the contents of the .blender folder that's hidden inside the
>> application bundle to /Users/UserName/Application Data/blender/ where
>> it's easily accessible, and as the platform standards dictate.
>>
>> We should apply the same logic to the .B.blend file. For such an
>> important file, it's terribly inaccessible and difficult to edit. It's
>> necessary to be able to access this file for various reasons
>> including:
>> * For testing/debugging, being able to rename your existing config and
>> test by making a clean file, and renaming back after testing
>> * As an artist, packing up your config to take to a new workstation
>> * Switching between configs for different users on the same workstation
>>
>> This is currently very difficult:
>> * On Mac OS X, files beginning with . are hidden by the finder, so
>> even if they were to by chance look in the non-standard location where
>> it's kept, most users wouldn't even know it exists.
>> * On Windows, dot files are visible in Explorer, but difficult to
>> manage. It's impossible to rename a file to .something.ext, it
>> requires characters before the first dot.
>> * Even on many linux systems, dot files are hidden by default in the
>> file browser.
>>
>> A good first step would be to just rename the .B.blend file to
>> startup.blend.
>>
>> Not only would it be vastly easier to work with and manipulate on the
>> various systems that Blender supports, but it also gives users a much
>> better indication about the file's purpose. Then, when (as we also
>> talked about at winter camp [1]) we separate this file out to one
>> containing startup UI settings, and one containing preferences, we can
>> give them logical names like startup.blend and preferences.blend
>>
>> So.. comments? :)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/WinterCamp/EditorReviews
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