2018-04-24 1:12 GMT+03:00 Seth Hillbrand <[email protected]>: > 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? > > No, unless you set it so that it's used everywhere. On Linux (or *nix) you can set it for one program instance only, just type in the bash shell:
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/my/dir" kicad and kicad will be run once with this env variable. You can for example ($ is the prompt): $ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/my/dir" kicad & $ kicad and two instances with two different XDG_CONFIG_HOME values are started. I presume it works similarly on Windows. After some googling I found this: https://netlicensing.io/blog/2012/06/15/set-environment-variables-in-windows-shortcut/, which might be useful for more permanent and less hassle-free style to start a program with customized variable. I have to test it on Windows later. Eeli Kaikkonen
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