Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home
On Sunday 12 December 2004 18:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: > What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? > I need a place to be able to read and write user data. > .fgfsrc could also live in there too. > I would prefer a folder called ~/.flightgear instead of ~/.fgfs. This is an usability issue because a folder that is called ~./fgfs is in my opinion too meaningless for the ordinary user. When we call it ~/.flightgear everyone will know what it is all about. Best Regards, Oliver C. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home
Paul Surgeon wrote: What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? I need a place to be able to read and write user data. .fgfsrc could also live in there too. After chatting with Melchior a bit : Can I add a FG-HOME environment variable in case HOME does not exist? The order of preference will be : 1. FG_HOME 2. HOME 3. ./ Paul, We already have FG_ROOT which I think is essentially what you intend for FG_HOME Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home
On 12/12/04 at 7:52 PM Paul Surgeon wrote: >On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: >> What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? >> I need a place to be able to read and write user data. >> .fgfsrc could also live in there too. >> I personally think that if you can get fgfs to save and restore settings set through the menu system in a cross-platform way that that would be bl*%dy excellent, and extremely useful. It is, after all, normal behaviour for the vast majority of programs. Cheers - Dave This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] User home
On Sunday, 12 December 2004 19:29, Paul Surgeon wrote: > What do people think about having a ~/.fgfs folder? > I need a place to be able to read and write user data. > .fgfsrc could also live in there too. > > After chatting with Melchior a bit : > Can I add a FG-HOME environment variable in case HOME does not exist? > > The order of preference will be : > 1. FG_HOME > 2. HOME > 3. ./ > > For *nix options 1,2,3 will work > For Windoze options 1,3 will work > Option 2 does not work for Windoze unless using Cygwin. (according to > fg_init.cxx) Option 2 will work on Winbloze. I was looking at .fgfsrc.hostname Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
