Re: Boot Log Entry

In article <ant1813279eepErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris
Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <50bc1f24d2bric-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brian
Carroll <URL:mailto:bric-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| This file is modified by the configuration plugins; it is
| run by every user to force them all to have a particular
| application loaded.

I remember now being miffed by RISC OS Ltd taking it upon
themselves to decide how I want to file stuff and wiping
that directory off one of the new Select installations. I
don't want to be '...forced to have a particular application
loaded'; and I particularly don't want to boot the whole of
Printers and Utilities which contain masses of stuff. I
choose how I want to set up my machine in Config. So most of
the 'Default' Desktop can be REMmed out.

AIUI ROL aren't forcing you, what they are doing is allowing
you to set the system up (if you so want) so that 'all users'
are forced to load something....

I beg to differ: That's not what RISCOS LTD's own comment (which
I have re-inserted) states and that's exactly what has been
happening here for years without me knowing.

...You choose to put something in there or not.

No. I have never put anything there. The file here is forcing
booting of the whole of !Printers and !Utilities applications
and tasks. Then !Printers+ is added to Apps if it's in Printing,
etc, etc. Even RISC OS 6 contains much the same file, also
making everyone run !HomeFiler - whatever that is.

I accept that once upon a time in the misty past people
generally had relatively few applications, so is was not a bad
idea to have a few standard directories in the root. We have
moved on, with hundreds of applications! And with a multitude of
Launchers and Multi-Screens we can do without any pre-conceived
arrangements of root directories or 'Apps' that are very
unlikely to suit anyone but a complete novice.

The comment quoted is also inaccurate in that it is not
modified by the config plug-ins as far as I can tell.

I've never bothered with muliple users but I think if you are
logged in, in a particular way, config will allow it to be
modified.

You may be right. But if you with your multiple business
machines do not need multiple users, who does?

Brian.

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