Hi William, On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:57 PM, William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I have been interested for a while in the possibility to set a different > path more appropriate for the system, like the user application data folder > on Windows and the user application support folder on OS X. > > Bummer, looks like this update is just for setting the path at runtime, which > is not really possible, or at least difficult, to do for the OS X application > (you just don't normally start applications with switches, but you can from a > Terminal, yuck). > > I found this patch ticket for compiling in a system-specific default. > > http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1442 > > It only has a Windows default, but a Mac default should be easy to add. I > wonder if it could be combined with this runtime switch change?
If there are no objections from other developers, I think for qgis 1.6 we can alter the qgis user settings directories per platform as follows: - unix: ~/.qgis (as before) - win: ~/Application Data/qgis - mac: ~/Library/Application Support/QGIS I just wonder how much this will confuse users as with the upgrade to 1.6 they will loose their locally installed plugins, custom styles, CRS and some other stuff... Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
