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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