2008/1/28, Harry Vennik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>
> Op 28-jan-2008, om 16:41 heeft Mirko Hansen het volgende geschreven:
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>
> > 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)


Aaah you're right, I havn't noticed it before ... I should better open my
eyes next time ;)
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