Has the preference file moved again?
The Alt key has stopped working again just recently but the mapalt code seems intact. The last time this happened it was because the default location of the preference file had changed; has that happened again or do I need to start digging through the code?
Gentoo Linux svn 21513.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Thomas Worthington<thomas@...2129...> wrote:
The Alt key has stopped working again just recently but the mapalt code seems intact. The last time this happened it was because the default location of the preference file had changed;
Yes. I just noticed that. From ~/.config/Inkscape it moved to ~/.config/inkscape (lowercase), apparently a few days ago.
Whoever committed this, please own up and revert! :)
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:14 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Thomas Worthington<thomas@...2129...> wrote:
The Alt key has stopped working again just recently but the mapalt code seems intact. The last time this happened it was because the default location of the preference file had changed;
Yes. I just noticed that. From ~/.config/Inkscape it moved to ~/.config/inkscape (lowercase), apparently a few days ago.
Whoever committed this, please own up and revert! :)
I did, after conferring with others.
The consensus (including pjrm and scislac) was that we should change this now, before we release with a version with this incorrect location that then needs to be maintained in parallel. A user note was made on the list just after it happened, but we probably should be more explicit.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
The consensus (including pjrm and scislac) was that we should change this now, before we release with a version with this incorrect location that then needs to be maintained in parallel. A user note was made on the list just after it happened, but we probably should be more explicit.
Was there any consensus that changing location should also lead to automatic copying of existing data like preferences, custom templates and scripts to a new location? :)
Or are we dealing with "clean mind" here? :)
Alexandre
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:14 -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:14 PM, bulia byak wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Thomas Worthington<thomas@...2129...> wrote:
The Alt key has stopped working again just recently but the mapalt code seems intact. The last time this happened it was because the default location of the preference file had changed;
Yes. I just noticed that. From ~/.config/Inkscape it moved to ~/.config/inkscape (lowercase), apparently a few days ago.
Whoever committed this, please own up and revert! :)
I did, after conferring with others.
The consensus (including pjrm and scislac) was that we should change this now, before we release with a version with this incorrect location that then needs to be maintained in parallel. A user note was made on the list just after it happened, but we probably should be more explicit.
Not that I think it's a huge deal, but I see no where that would imply this is "incorrect".
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/index.html
Personally, I think that the English language is pretty clear that proper nouns should have uppercased first characters :)
--Ted
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
Not that I think it's a huge deal, but I see no where that would imply this is "incorrect".
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/index.html
Personally, I think that the English language is pretty clear that proper nouns should have uppercased first characters :)
Oh, common practice is for lower-case directories.
One the few linux boxen I've checked, they're mainly all lower case. The lone exception on my main Ubuntu box is "Trolltech"... but I will try to avoid rising to the bait on that one. :-)
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 22:05 -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
Not that I think it's a huge deal, but I see no where that would imply
this is "incorrect".
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/index.html
Personally, I think that the English language is pretty clear that
proper nouns should have uppercased first characters :)
Oh, common practice is for lower-case directories.
We really need to come to a final decision on this ASAP. Upper or lower? I personally think lower is more appropriate because it then is just a change in the preferences directory location, instead of the location AND the name of the prefs dir. Additionally it really does seem that lowercase directory naming is common practice most open source apps I've run across (on linux).
It seems like we have 2 votes for one way (Jon & I), and 2 for the other (Bulia & Ted)... anyone else care to chime in?
Cheers, Josh
P.S. I have something time sensitive I'm working on where having this finalized would be greatly useful.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Joshua A. Andler<scislac@...400...> wrote:
It seems like we have 2 votes for one way (Jon & I), and 2 for the other (Bulia & Ted)... anyone else care to chime in?
I really have no opinion either way - it's just that I assumed that it was done by mistake, that's why I asked to revert it. If it's intentional, I can live with that :)
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:52 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Joshua A. Andler<scislac@...400...> wrote:
It seems like we have 2 votes for one way (Jon & I), and 2 for the other (Bulia & Ted)... anyone else care to chime in?
I really have no opinion either way - it's just that I assumed that it was done by mistake, that's why I asked to revert it. If it's intentional, I can live with that :)
Since it was intentional, I propose not changing it again then. :)
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Oh, common practice is for lower-case directories.
How common is this common practice? :)
For me ~/.config has subdirectories like MusE, Mysoft, Pencil, QSvn, Qtpfsgui, RawTherapee, Trolltech and Undertype. I also happen to have ~/.FontForge, ~/.Fontmatrix, ~/.GTKRawGallery, ~/.Skype etc.
Alexandre
On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Oh, common practice is for lower-case directories.
How common is this common practice? :)
For me ~/.config has subdirectories like MusE, Mysoft, Pencil, QSvn, Qtpfsgui, RawTherapee, Trolltech and Undertype. I also happen to have ~/.FontForge, ~/.Fontmatrix, ~/.GTKRawGallery, ~/.Skype etc.
On my stock Ubuntu installs I have about a dozen pref directories each in there.
Of those dozen, only one is in capital. That's the Trolltech one.
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