Profiles - General Discussion

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Jonathon Suggs writes:
>There are a couple of threads going on right now that are loosely
>talking about "profiles" so lets see if we can't get them combined and
>focused.
>
>But first, I'm not sure if we are all thinking of the same thing that a
>profile represents.  So here is my short simple version (please correct
>if necessary or give a better term).
>Profile: A named entity (Examples: Home, Work, Car, Silent, Meeting,
>Airplane) that represents a group of settings (volumes, communication
>(BT, GPS), ringers, power settings, etc)

(Lots of good points snipped).  My musing (it's not well enough
formulated call it a "thought") is that it might be possible to
replace "a named entity" with "a collection of settings".