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

[Diego B]

+1

I like the idea of /home/me/.blender/*

About freedesktop, -1 for me, ICCCM and NET_WM are one thing, user
preferences another.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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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>>
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