On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:36:31 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
VZ> Mahogany doesn't create $HOME/.M under Windows, it uses another
VZ> directory
VZ> (currently its current one but this is wrong and should be changed).
I personally would prefer that Mahogany uses the same philosophy and the same
directories
on both Linux and Windows ... where possible. This is my personal
scenario of usage: I want to keep my mails and my config files on
a USB stick and use Windows and Linux with the same data.
If I type M <enter> on both
systems it should do the right thing ;-)
VZ> Also,
VZ> it doesn't put all default values in ~/.M/config because this would
VZ> make
VZ> for a huge file.
I think even the positions of the windows should
not be kept in the config file if
the default positions are ok for the user. Maybe a setting
"UseDefaultLayout=1" could force Mahogany to avoid writing the
window positions to the config file. (Changes would be lost.)
VZ> RB> 2) Interploation of environment variables does not seem to
VZ> RB> work.
VZ> RB>
VZ> RB> I tried $HOME, ${HOME}, %HOME and %HOME%
VZ>
VZ> I thought I had fixed this... Do you remember what I replied to you
VZ> the
VZ> last time about this?
You said you have fixed this ;-) However, it does not seem to
work in 0.65. I'll check again if I am the only one who has this
problem. Could someone give a concrete test case which I should try?
VZ> RB> 3) I'd suggest the following behaviour on Windows:
VZ> RB>
VZ> RB> An existing $HOME/.M/config should signal that the user does not
VZ> want to use
VZ> RB> the registry but the configuration file. Maybe: Except if the
VZ> RB> config file sets (something like) UseRegistry to "1" ;-)
VZ>
VZ> It shouldn't be necessary to have $HOME, I think this should be a
VZ> choice
VZ> in the installation program or the initial wizard. If you choose to
VZ> use a
VZ> config file it should simply store its name in the registry and, if
VZ> this
VZ> value is present, use it on the subsequent runs.
It's not an important issue, of course. If I have a computer with
both Linux and Windows and use the same directory for HOME on both
systems I would not have to configure the Windos installation of
Mahogany. And someone who just uses Windows would not even
realize this magic behind the scenes.
Regards
Roland
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