Quote:Original post by Kazgoroth
Well I really don't care *how* the word processor makes it possible for me to continue from where I last left off, just that it does! I can put pretty much any program ino that sentence and it still makes sense.
Ok, sure if you want to be anal-retentive about it, you can do that. Especially since you didn't even bother commenting on the key-concept in that paragraph.
Wow, I can't say I had anticipated such a heated debate, especially since it seems I'm almost the only one thinking this way, well me and xycos. I'm sorry if I hurt anyones feelings with my posts, but really, there's no need to get all anal-retentive about this topic. We're still the minority here.
Quote:Original post by KazgorothSo are you therefore arguing that no documents should ever be automatically placed in the My Documents folder by any program?
To answer your question, yes, I think that no program should ever automagically create a file/directory in "My Documents". Please note that automagically here means "without the user explicitly asking for it to be stored there".
Which brings us to my word-processor. At least it allows me to choose
*where* I want to store a document, "My Documents" is then only the default.
I agree it would be a little bit better if all games put their savedata in a directory under "My Games" since it wouldn't clutter up the "My Documents"-folder as much.
Quote:Original post by MadsterThen, since its a document, you'll want to be able to open it, right?
so why not, go ahead and register the filetype. Because every one wants each of their games to have its own registered file extension hooked to the game, since that's the usual way we load games, by double-clicking the savegame file, right?
Sure that might be good, but the problem is that many games today seem to favor the "savegame.XXX" naming standard which makes it difficult to distinguish which one I really want.
