Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
We just spoke about the freedesktop.org directory standards in another
message thread and this made me think. Why isn't Lazarus using the
GetAppConfigDir(False) as it's default location for all the IDE config
files. It's hard-coded to $HOME/.lazarus/ directory for Linux (and
probably other unix type OS's as well)?
If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
I believe Lazarus IDE uses GetAppConfigDir(False) under Windows now,
but why
not for all platforms?
Correct. The change was needed, because more and more the executable directory was
off limits for writing by ordinary users.
Also GetAppConfigDir(False) does not mean hard-coded $HOME/.config/
directory. The GetAppConfigDir() adheres to the freedesktop.org
directory standards (for unix type
environments) that means $HOME/.config/ is simply the default
directory if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable has NOT been set.
The user can simply set the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to point to another
location if they please and GetAppConfigDir(False) will use that
directory instead.
So what should it be set to keep the current config directory? If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
contains the same as $HOME, the result of GetAppConfigDir(False) will be ~/lazarus
instead of ~/.lazarus.
I think that
a) .lazarus was a logical choice for unix.
b) It is now historically so. Changing this now would mean that the
current configuration breaks.
But if it bothers you, you can do the following:
ln -s ~/.lazarus ~/.config/lazarus
or even
mv ~/.lazarus ~/.config/lazarus
ln -s ~/.config/lazarus ~/.lazarus
:-)
Or use some alias, which adds --pcp=~/.config/lazarus to the command to start
lazarus.
Vincent
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