On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:22:34AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > A fellow just wrote me with some nice praise for Tux Paint, and also some > comments on its use under Windows XP: > > The only other issue I have is that it is not very mutli-user friendly > due to its use of the "Program Files" folder for config and user > data files in Windows. My Windows XP setup is basic; my wife and > I use an administrative login and my children a more restricted login. > Having installed Tux Paint in my account and put a shortcut on the > childresn desktop I could not save files in the children's login. > To be fair this was easily solved with '--savedir "%HOMEPATH%\TuxPaint" > in the shortcut but I think that should have been automatic. It also > conceivable that user settings should be stored for each user, for > example print enabled for me but not the children. > > > I'll make a note of this in the Wishlist at SourceForge. In the meantime, > John and others... any comments? > I will have a look at changing Tux Paint so that it uses the users 'X:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Tux Paint' location (from the registry) to store 'tuxpaint.cfg'.
As was suggested a while back, a users pictures should probably be somewhere like 'My Documents\My Pictures\Tux Paint' so that they at least have a chance of finding them! A shared/global settings file would go where? The Tux Paint application folder? I've got an alternate installer that only installs for the current user, but works correctly if they are 'restricted' - different default install location, different registry entries. If I added an option to install for all users (if run by a non-restricted user) that would get us to the next release :-) Then there's just the stamps/additional fonts problem. Shared between users would be nice, but it would also need to work correctly if installed by a restricted user (an already known problem). Tux Paint Config would also need changing a bit so that, if required, only non-restricted users can run it, and decide who's settings to change? Ugh. Or, maybe everyone can run it but some options are grayed-out unless you have permission. Or maybe there's a command-line switch '--admin' that causes it to edit the global settings and let file permissions take care of it. I'll take another look at what we're doing on Unix systems. I obviously need to give it more thought. Any ideas? cheers, John. > Thanks! > > -- > -bill! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm anticipating an all-out tactical > http://newbreedsoftware.com/ dog-fight, followed by a light dinner." > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-dev mailing list > Tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net > http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list Tuxpaint-dev@tux4kids.net http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
