Because there is this concept called "consistency" that's interesting to have :p If your code wants $HOME it can ask for it explicitly, same for /. However if it just wants to do something in $PWD consistent with most use-cases, the image directory is the sensible default. On 22 March 2016 at 13:05, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@inria.fr> wrote:
Damien Pollet <damien.pollet@gmail.com> writes:
On 22 March 2016 at 12:56, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@inria.fr> wrote:
typical applications ran with double-click are bound to the HOME directory. Why do you want to do it differently?
Only on Linux. On OS X it's /
so, why do you want to make it the image directory?
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