On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I believe Microsoft has a LocalAppData location, but not sure if that >> is also used for GetAppConfigDir(False). > > Yes it is.
Umm... :-( >> For example: freedesktop.org (I believe) specifies the following file: >> $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs > > Well, on my system this file does not exist. I can't remember ever installing it myself, but it seems to be included as part of the following Ubuntu (deb) packages: * xdg-user-dirs * xdg-user-dirs-gtk Which also has defaults in the following locations: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults More info here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs I don't know which applications actually adhere to these locations though, but I'm willing to start. :-) > It's not so easy to find a good compromise. I agree, hence my posting here... ;-) > I was already not very happy about the change to use ~/.config/appname > instead of .appname. Oh, I welcomed that change. :-) I hate having my $HOME directory full of hidden files and directories. It's to disorganised for my liking. > The fact that the freedesktop.org specs are not very binding, doesn't > make it very suitable in my eyes. Well at least they are trying to making things easier for desktop applications. Using things like 'xdg-open' instead of trying to find the correct user preferred application to open HTTP, text files, HTML, PDF etc... files. It's a huge time saver! I wish more and more applications will start following these guidelines. Unix and Linux systems really need some consistency in the desktop application space. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
