https://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466

--- Comment #25 from Thomas Perl <[email protected]> 2012-07-31 21:37:17 BST ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> For Windows, gPodder is designed to be used in "portable" mode, i.e. you can
> without problems move the whole gPodder application directory somewhere else
> (e.g. into your home directory or your data partition or even USB disk) and 
> run
> gPodder from there. That's why we have not gotten around to implement this 
> yet,
> as it's a non-issue for most users.

Actually, recent versions of gPodder 3 for windows now also include a menu item
that lets users choose a new download folder. This should take care of this
from the Windows perspective.

I'm thinking of just doing something like
https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/pull/4 and reading an environment variable
for the download directory.

For Linux users, I think the ideal way to solve this is to just set
~/gPodder/Downloads to be a symlink to wherever you want to have your downloads
stored. If you don't want to clutter your $HOME, set GPODDER_HOME to a
different directory. For users without symlinks (for some reason or the other,
e.g. because GPODDER_HOME is on a vfat partition), I think having an additional
GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR environment variable set will account for all
possibilities.

Still TODO:

 - Implement something similar to pull request 4 (see link above)
 - Update instructions on the Wiki / User Manual / FAQs

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