RFC: more Windows-NT like user directories?

[Mike Hearn]

Juan Lang wrote:
> Folks, I'm still working on the shell path functions,
> and I was thinking of changing the directory layout
> for the shell directories (desktop, start menu, my
> documents and whatnot) from the Windows 95-ish way to
> the NT-ish way.  That is, rather than being children
> of c:\windows, they'd generally be children of
> c:\documents and settings\<username>.
> 
> Any complaints?

Why the change? Being more NT-ish isn't necessarily a good thing.

Currently Wine ignores multi-user stuff and delegates it to the host 
system. As your fake windows drive is probably already in $HOME having a 
separate Documents and Settings directory seems superflous.

I suppose some admins may want a shared fake windows drive but separate 
menus/icons (seems a bit odd seeing as the registry wouldn't be shared), 
but if so we probably need to think that through properly 
(ownership/permissions/etc).

thanks -mike