[Geany-Devel] Windows GTK Runtime 2.24 and config directory
Hi, lately, I started building a new Windows installer which includes a recent GTK 2.24 runtime for Windows which need for future releases. While most things went fine I noticed one problem: GTK, in detail Glib, changed the way g_get_user_data_dir() works on Windows: in older releases, something GLib 2.28 or 2.26 and older, g_get_user_data_dir() returned c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming, in newer GLib versions it returns c:\users\username\AppData\Local. This affects users who already have a config directory located in ...\Roaming and Geany would look in ...\Local now. This is the change I'm talking about: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/gutils.c?id=9d80c361418f94c609840ec9f83741aede7e482c How do we want to handle this? - continue using the ...\Roaming directory (and so not using g_get_user_data_dir() anymore) - leave the code as it is, resulting in a new complete config for users - add some code to check if a config in ...\Roaming exists and if so, move it to ...\Local I'd implement the last choice if there are no objections. This is not nice because we implement again some magic config directory move code but at least the user won't notice that GLib change. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: [Geany-Devel] Windows GTK Runtime 2.24 and config directory
Hey, Le 22/08/2014 20:23, Enrico Tröger a écrit : lately, I started building a new Windows installer which includes a recent GTK 2.24 runtime for Windows which need for future releases. Nice :) While most things went fine I noticed one problem: GTK, in detail Glib, changed the way g_get_user_data_dir() works on Windows: in older releases, something GLib 2.28 or 2.26 and older, g_get_user_data_dir() returned c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming, in newer GLib versions it returns c:\users\username\AppData\Local. This affects users who already have a config directory located in ...\Roaming and Geany would look in ...\Local now. This is the change I'm talking about: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/gutils.c?id=9d80c361418f94c609840ec9f83741aede7e482c Oh my. And we though it was a supporting library :) How do we want to handle this? - continue using the ...\Roaming directory (and so not using g_get_user_data_dir() anymore) - leave the code as it is, resulting in a new complete config for users - add some code to check if a config in ...\Roaming exists and if so, move it to ...\Local I'd implement the last choice if there are no objections. This is not nice because we implement again some magic config directory move code but at least the user won't notice that GLib change. Agreed, both with solution and remark. Regards, Colomban signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: [Geany-Devel] Windows GTK Runtime 2.24 and config directory
On 23 August 2014 04:23, Enrico Tröger enrico.troe...@uvena.de wrote: Hi, lately, I started building a new Windows installer which includes a recent GTK 2.24 runtime for Windows which need for future releases. Hi Enrico, Do you have access to any reputation or signing certificates for windows applications? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/08/15/10339518.aspx Might improve the windows experience. Cheers Lex While most things went fine I noticed one problem: GTK, in detail Glib, changed the way g_get_user_data_dir() works on Windows: in older releases, something GLib 2.28 or 2.26 and older, g_get_user_data_dir() returned c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming, in newer GLib versions it returns c:\users\username\AppData\Local. This affects users who already have a config directory located in ...\Roaming and Geany would look in ...\Local now. This is the change I'm talking about: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/gutils.c?id=9d80c361418f94c609840ec9f83741aede7e482c How do we want to handle this? - continue using the ...\Roaming directory (and so not using g_get_user_data_dir() anymore) - leave the code as it is, resulting in a new complete config for users - add some code to check if a config in ...\Roaming exists and if so, move it to ...\Local I'd implement the last choice if there are no objections. This is not nice because we implement again some magic config directory move code but at least the user won't notice that GLib change. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: [Geany-Devel] Windows GTK Runtime 2.24 and config directory
On 14-08-22 11:23 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote: Hi, lately, I started building a new Windows installer which includes a recent GTK 2.24 runtime for Windows which need for future releases. [snip] - add some code to check if a config in ...\Roaming exists and if so, move it to ...\Local I'd implement the last choice if there are no objections. This is not nice because we implement again some magic config directory move code but at least the user won't notice that GLib change. Sounds fine to me, even just a one-time dialog telling the user about the change would be useful. Either way the code be put inside win32.c and guarded with an #ifdef G_OS_WIN32 so it doesn't mess up unrelated source files. FWIW, I don't think this is the first time the config directory moved. Even between WinXP and Windows7 the actual directory used had changed, causing a little confusion (for me at least). Cheers, Matthew Brush ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
