Am 07.04.18 um 17:34 schrieb Strontium: > Attached is a patch for discussion only. > > Its the minimum change I could come up with to implement a unique > version specific config directory. > > Nick mentioned changing XDG_CONFIG_HOME, that will not work on Windows > or Mac. > And on Linux, etc it will change from "~/.config/kicad" to > "~/somethingelse/kicad" which would work, but isn't a very friendly > naming scheme.
Changing XDG_CONFIG_HOME itself wouldn't be correct. XDG_CONFIG_HOME is pointing to '$HOME/.config' and XDG_DATA_HOME is referencing to $HOME/.local/share. I'm sure Windows and Mac have similar variables for the folders that should contain the logical same content. The path to the KiCad user config must based on such variables plus the preferred name for the config folder, so like kicad-5 (for KiCad5) and kicad-6 (for future version KiCad6) and kicad-nightly (for devel version). GTK is doing this for a long time. > $ find ~/.config -type d -name gtk* > /home/carsten/.config/gtk-3.0 > /home/carsten/.config/gtk-2.0 If KiCad will introduce some version specific user config and data folders (which I appreciate to see) it will be needed to configured by the build environment and not hard-coded in the binaries. The variables can be overwritten with some additional value given while starting the applications. e.g. take the default folders $ kicad override the setting for the default config etc. $ KICAD_XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/my/special/folder kicad -- Regards Carsten _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
