[MiNT] Re: location of GEM app configs and RSC

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> >Quite frankly, I think that for GEM apps, everything should be 
> un-installable by deleting _one_ single folder, just like every 
> Atari user has been doing since almost 15 years.

> But UNIX applications in opposite to GEM applications are allowed to
> spread their files, e.g. to /usr/share/locale/? 

...or /etc/opt/package or /usr/lib (deprecated), yes, for Unix.

> GEM files _already_ are spread around: config files to $HOME or
> $HOME/defaults/, 

Me looks in The Atari Compendium and finds nothing about that.

However, several MiNT and MagiC specific applications rely upon
$HOME but this is a bad idea, IMHO, because users need to have
2 copies of every config file.

> icon resource files in different manners (according to the user's
> desktop application).

Well, here, it works well, because it is desktop-dependant.

Anyways, until GEM apps come with a proper installer that also knows 
how to de-install an application _WITH_ALL_OF_ITS_RELATED_FILES then
we really should stick to using _one_ single folder per application.

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