On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:05 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: > 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...
Hi Martin, From and OS X perspective, I think this would be a good change. A note in a readme file could be supplied with 1.6 binaries and it could also be noted in the documentation. That should suffice to cover the change. Cheers, John_______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
