For what may be the first time ever in KiCad, I vote in favor of the #ifdef. The standard behavior is different on the two operating systems: the Windows convention is to default to a documents directory (either 'Documents' or one specifically created for the application), and the Linux convention is to default to CWD which is $HOME when launched from the desktop manager. Using an #ifdef for this allows us to have the conventional behavior on each system.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:49:53PM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote: > So right now KiCad uses wxGetCwd when it needs a default path. On > Linux this is HOME or wherever to launched it from command line. > > The problem is wxGetCwd returns %PROGRAM FILES%/KiCad as windows uses > the executable directory by default. This directory is read only on a > proper Windows 7+ system and requries administrator permissions to > write. So it is a bad choice. > > Ideally we replace wxGetCwd with > wxStandardPaths::Get().GetDocumentsDir() which will return > %USER%/Documents on Windows and HOME on linux. > > Except this will break Linux users being able to launch kicad in > command line in their favorite folder. > > So do we #ifdef Windows where getCwd used or something else? As of > right now, wxGetCwd is an bad choice for windows. > > -- > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
