On 12/3/2010 11:21 AM, Andrew McDonald wrote:
Hi. Is there any chance you'll consider moving where IDLE stores its
app settings files under Windows? It's currently dumping them directly
into the user's folder root, Unix style, in ".idlerc". This isn't how
things are supposed to be done in Windows - it should be in the
application data special folder, retrieved through SHGetFolderPath or
similar. It's especially bad under Vista/Windows 7, because the user
root is often presented to the user in the Explorer interface and
Start menu where it used to only really be concerned with the My
Documents subfolder. So Unix-style apps like this bloat up the user's
view (Perforce and Blender are similar offenders.)
Pretty please? I'm using IDLE 2.7, perhaps this is already fixed with
the Python 3 packages?
In 3.1, .idlerc is still under Documents and Settings/<username>, I
also have .alice, .java, .jedit, .jpi_cache, and .mnemosyne. So it seems
to be pretty common, but these really all belong under ApplicationData
or even Local Setting/ApplicationData. (Some apps put directories under
both. Do you know the designed difference?)
I am pretty sure all is the same in 3.2. However, if you file an feature
request issue, a change could be considered for 3.3. However, one
problem is that there is one .idlerc for all versions, so settings are
the same regardless of Python version on top of which IDLE runs. So
moving could be a problem.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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