Toolbar icons not found if tool is installed in user config dir
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Key: FOR-581
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-581
Project: Forrest
Type: Improvement
Components: Tool: XXE config
Versions: 0.8-dev
Reporter: Sjur N. Moshagen
Priority: Minor
The XXE tool is referencing several icons in the XXE distribution in a way that
requires the tool to be installed within the application directory structure.
As of version 2.10 (or was it 2.9p1?), the user config dir is a replica of the
application config dir, and is scanned upon application startup. This makes it
natural to install the forrest XXE tool in the user space, to avoid having to
reinstall it each time XXE is updated.
Because the icon references are relative to the installation dir of XXE (and
assuming that the tool is installed at a certain directory depth within it), it
is presently not possible to install the tool in the XXE user config area. The
tool initialisation will crash, which again will turn off the tool.
A simple solution would be to just copy the icons into the forreset tool, but I
have been unable to find any license text or any other description on whether
that would be acceptable.
Another solution would be to enhance the URI of the icons with a reference to
the installation directory, but I don't know whether there exists a mechanism
that would allow the necessary platform independence and flexibility.
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