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

[Mango Jambo]

+1 ...
but I would like to have the option to hide it on my home folder, like how
it is now. I don't access this folder all the time, so, imho, is not a big
deal to have it hide.

So, may be an option on Blender to search for a blender/ folder, and if do
not find it, search for a .blender/ folder next. Same for startup.blend
file. That means, if is decided to have the folder unhide by default, we
still with the option to hide this folder only renaming (for lin and osx
users).

Moraes Junior - aka mangojambo
3D Artist Animator


2009/5/6 Ken Hughes <khughes at pacific.edu>

> +1.  I hate all the dot files I have already in my home dir and would
> like to see some hierarchy followed.
>
> Ken
>
> Xavier Thomas wrote:
> > Would be great, but I think the freedesktop standard recommend:
> > /home/user/.config/blender/files-here
> >
> > 2009/5/6 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ideasman42 at gmail.com>>
> >
> >     +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
> >     <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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]
> >     >>
> >
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