Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Lots of stuff

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:56 -0300, bulia byak wrote:

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:

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 * Moved the Inkscape configuration directory on Linux from
   ~/.inkscape to ~/.config/Inkscape.  This is the new way to do
   things with the cross desktop naming spec.  I'm unsure whether
   we should be putting crash dumps in .config or .cache though.

For those who upgrade, this basically means that they old prefs are lost. Can we do something about it? E.g. just add reading from ~/.inkscape on startup if ~/.config/Inkscape does not yet exist?

Well, the part I dislike about that is that we're going to have to keep that check around for theoretically forever. Which, even by a little, slows down our startup.

I'm working on trying to solve this desktop wide right now, this isn't uniquely an Inkscape problem. If that isn't ready by the time 0.47 ships, I think we should put it in 0.47, but drop for 0.48.

--Ted