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Re: .desktop_o2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jun 9 10:30:31 1999
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:48:59 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:30:23 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I logged into an 8.3 O2 and i created a ~/.desktop_o2 directory for
> me, and populated it based on my ~/.desktop_indy. Is it supposed to
> do that? I thought we'd prevented this sort of behavior.
Yes, it's supposed to do that, though it is admittedly less than optimal.
We added the .desktop_o2 directory in IRIX 6.3; the 6.3 directory contents
are incompatible with the 6.2 layout. Since merging the two for 6.5 seems
problematic, and there could be hardware-based differences between the
two, the best thing to do seemed to be to keep the 6.3 behavior.
[The default sgi behavior is to create a per-host .desktop directory;
we make a symlink for that name, pointing at either the indy or o2
directory.]
Bob
