I'm a bit late to this conversation so forgive the basic question. Won't this break things for users that explicitly set XDG_CONFIG_HOME for other reasons?
-S 2018-04-23 14:29 GMT-07:00 Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>: > Just open a terminal and "set" it as you you do on linux, where you would > "export" it. > > Den man. 23. apr. 2018 23.27 skrev Eeli Kaikkonen < > [email protected]>: > >> >> >> 2018-04-23 20:10 GMT+03:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >> >>> Attached is a patch that allows users to have multiple configuration >>> paths using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on all platforms. >>> >> >> This will be appreciated amongst the users. >> >> It seems to work on Ubuntu. I applied the patch, compiled and installed. >> I made a new dir, set the variable and started kicad with it. It opened as >> for the first time and populated the new dir with some conf files and dirs. >> Started again without the variable it opened with the old config. >> >> There's still one question: how to use it on Windows? I think many >> Windows users don't know how to use env variables, and I don't know how I >> would easily set one for only one application instance. It's useless if >> added globally, right? Can someone give instructions? I would give them to >> the forum readers, there have been much need for this. >> >> Eeli Kaikkonen >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
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