On 8/31/2014 8:35 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: > On 08/31/2014 11:07 AM, jp charras wrote: >> Le 31/08/2014 13:59, Moses McKnight a écrit : >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Config file relocation >>> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 06:58:31 -0500 >>> From: Moses McKnight <[email protected]> >>> To: Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]> >>> >>> On 08/31/2014 03:27 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >>>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I would like to move the kicad config files in linux to a more >>>>> "proper" >>>>> location as defined by the FreeDesktop specification here: >>>>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html >>>>> >>>>> Specifically this would put the files in $HOME/.config/kicad. >>>> >>>> Yay for not putting junk in the home :D having here the fp-lib-table is >>>> really ugly. I don't care if it's .config/kicad or .kicad (I don't >>>> really like many of the freedesktop standard) but having all the stuff >>>> in one place is really better. >>>> >>>>> At first I thought I could just change bin_mod.cpp, but figured out >>>>> that >>>>> there were three other places that would need changing as well to >>>>> catch >>>>> everything. So I made a new function in common.h/.cpp called >>>>> GetNewConfig(...) and changed the four other files to call that >>>>> instead of >>>>> creating a wxConfig() object. >>>> >>>> Be warned: IIRC there were also serious issues on windows since the >>>> config classes in wx are tied to the registry or something like that (I >>>> tried to do that in the past, it didn't go well :D); careful >>>> checking is >>>> needed. >>>> >>> >>> As I mentioned, I didn't change how it is done in Windows, so the >>> configs are still in the registry there. If desired it would be trivial >>> to put them in config files in %APPADATA%\kicad as well. wxConfig by >>> default uses the registry in Windows, but that can be changed easily. >> >> I tested it on Linux and On Windows. >> It works fine. >> >> If nobody complains, I'll commit you patch soon. >> >> Thanks. > > Do you think it would be good to make it automatically move the old > files to the new location, or just inform the users of the need to do > that if they don't want to re-enter their settings? The file names in > ~/.config/kicad will not have the dot in front, so instead of > ".eeschema" it will be simply "eeschema". If it would be better to > still have them be dot files, I can change that. This would make it so > the old config files could simply be moved and not have to be re-named - > if it is done manually. > > Also, should the global fp-lib-table be moved as well? I did not look > at that one. > > Thanks, > Moses >
Moses, I don't think it's necessary to copy the old files. Most of the configuration set up is fairly trivial. If you've been using KiCad for any length of time, there probably is a lot of cruft in the config files that is no longer used. If we are going to make this change, I recommend moving fp-lib-table there as well. Splitting up the KiCad configuration files in multiple places will only confuse users. I also recommend migrating windows over to config files instead of using the registry. The global fp-lib-table file is alread in the %APPDATA%/kicad folder on windows. I'm sure there will be some grumbling but it's much easier for developers have someone send a config file than digging around the windows registry. Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
