On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, <joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com> wrote: > Hi, > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19028 > > winecfg on Mac OSX (10.5.6 and .7) does not link "My Videos" etc. to the > equivalent directories on the Mac. Everything is linked to $HOME (or was it > Desktop/?) instead. What a pity! > > Mac OSX uses directories named Documents/, Pictures/, Videos/, Music/ -- even > in the German locale. The Finder GUI provides localized names. Unlike > XDG/Gnome there are no crazy hacks at session begin to rename directories > based > on the session's locale. > I don't know how earlier releases of Mac OSX behave, i.e. whether these > directories have always been present. Does anyone know a reference? > > I located the relevant places that would need a patch: > dlls/shell32/shellpath.c:_SHCreateSymbolicLinks > and possibly > dlls/shell32/xdg.c:XDG_UserDirLookup > > However, some design issues are unclear to me, hence prevent me from writing > a patch: > - In what order to add the Mac check? > - When to check for a folder named "My Documents" (MS-Windows non-localized > name in English locale, possibly translated), and when for "Documents" > (MacOS constant name)? > - Use XDG on the Mac or not? (if linked in, e.g. possibly when compiled via > MacPorts, which pulls in a zillion libraries. Apple does not provide > libfreedesktop.) > > Thanks for your comments, > Jörg Höhle > > >
You probably want a separate code path in shellpath.c for the Mac. I don't think XDG works there.
