Op 28-jan-2008, om 16:41 heeft Mirko Hansen het volgende geschreven: > Hey everybody, > > as I had a lot of trouble the last days with my laptop (I usually > use aMSN only on my laptop with WinXP, at home and at university) > because it had a hard disk crash, I was trying to use my profile on > my Mac at home and the Linux-PCs at university and noticed that > profiles are more or less incompatible between other OSs. There are > several settings in the config that are OS-specific or absolute > paths only reachable on the same system, so I was wondering if I > was the only one having those problems? The worst thing were the > paths to the custom emoticons, therefor I allowed myself to commit > a patch that stores the path in the config.xml as a relative path > from the profile directory instead of the absolute path, that there > is no need to modify the config.xml before moving the profile to an > other OS. I did the same for the DP, but there are several other > settings left that are not directly portable. So my intention is to > make the profiles portable between OS or even increase the > portability as much as possible, if you agree. > At first I have a simple question: Is there any reason why the > directory of the received files is located on a "neutral" place? > Well, on MacOS it's much easier to find because it's located on the > desktop, but on Windows it's located in the scripts directory, so I > was wondering whether it couldn't be placed in the profile > directory, too? On Linux and other Unix that would result in a > problem, trying to find the directory, as .amsn is hidden, but > maybe a menu item "view received files" in the CL like the button > in the transfer window would help here. That menu item is already there (in the Account menu)
> The reason why proposing this solution is better portability, too, > because the path could be saved relative and makes the profile > portable. > The other idea, if you don't like this solution, would be handling > this setting like the other OS-dependant settings: For example the > setting for opening the browser is OS-specific. How about renaming > the config key, before saving the config to file, depending on the > OS running, to browser_win, browser_mac, browser_linux or > browser_other and after loading doing the same the opposite > direction? That wouldn't be a great thing to change but would > improve the portability of the profiles a lot. > How do you think about this idea? > > Mirko > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
