Re: 2 questions

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:27:19PM -0400, Homer J. Fong wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Jerry
> Talkington <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm sure there are plenty of other uses that I haven't listed, but there
> > really is no compelling remove this functionality.  If it's not seemless
> > to a user with a single profile, then that's a bug.
> 
> Then how about an OPTION to turn it off? For those of us who are not
> developers and have no use for the added "features" that individual
> profiles provide. Give the user the freedom to decide. That would be
> nice.

What is it that you want the option to remove?  With only one profile,
you should never be prompted to select a profile, so it doesn't even
appear that multiple profiles are possible.  You have to manually create
additional profiles and enable the profile manager, so that's not a
problem for people who want just one profile.

All of the settings must be saved somewhere, so they into
~/Library/<program>/<profilename>/<random>.slt/

There will probably never be an option to remove the
<profilename>/<random>.slt/ directories, since changing that would
introduce a considerable amount of coding effort, with a high
probability of unstableness, and no benefit.  Most people don't go
poking around in the profile directories, and those who do generally
have more than one profile.

If there is some point that I'm missing, then please elaborate, because
I'm at a loss as to why you'd want to remove functionality that is
invisible to the typical end user anyway.

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