Location of new GnuCash style sheets

[Mike or Penny Novack]

I note that this folder does not display to Mac users by default.
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to place these files in some visible
spot, since they are user-created?

> Perhaps.
>
> This data has historically always been in a hidden directory. The
> original developers seemed to consider stylesheets as configuration data
> rather than a separate user-created file. The use case of sharing this
> was probably never considered.

Whether ANY directories are "hidden" is a matter of YOUR choice. That 
the default setting for MS and Mac operating systems "hides" application 
data is probably for the benefit of very basic computer users, people 
who are unable to do things like back up their own data* (YOUR 
application data is YOUR data, that's why there is an application data 
directory in each user's space).

What we saw earlier (in a post) is an example of why the OS developers 
might have made such a decision. In the program area is often found what 
looks like data. Those are the "skeletons" of the data used to 
initialize what is created in each user's application data area the 
first time they open the program. The "skeletons" can't be in any user's 
data area as they have to be available (for that initialization) for 
users who might not yet exist on the computer.

But I'll repeat, if you have left your "file searching" tool not to show 
"hidden" files that is your choice.

Michael D Novack

* If you can't see/select a directory, how could you copy it to a USB 
drive or wherever you make your periodic backups.