In discussion today the subject of our preferences, etc came up. The initial comment was
"also, i really would love to be able to store the inkscape preferences files in a given location (so, to be able to run two builds alternatively without having to save & rename the prefs files manually). profiles!"
Looking into that, it seems that perhaps we should switch some of the mess that is path-prefix.h with the stock calls that now are in glib and that follow the XDG Base Directory Specification
http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec
In fact, we should perhaps look over a few of those "Miscellaneous Utility Functions" in glib http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functi...
The immediately useful function would be g_get_user_config_dir().
One main benefit of using that call is that Inkscape should then be easy to direct to different "config" directories and allow for users to pair different versions of Inkscape with different directories... or different work scenarios with different ones, etc.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:16:30PM -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
In discussion today the subject of our preferences, etc came up. The initial comment was
"also, i really would love to be able to store the inkscape preferences files in a given location (so, to be able to run two builds alternatively without having to save & rename the prefs files manually). profiles!"
Looking into that, it seems that perhaps we should switch some of the mess that is path-prefix.h with the stock calls that now are in glib and that follow the XDG Base Directory Specification
http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec
In fact, we should perhaps look over a few of those "Miscellaneous Utility Functions" in glib http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functi...
The immediately useful function would be g_get_user_config_dir().
One main benefit of using that call is that Inkscape should then be easy to direct to different "config" directories and allow for users to pair different versions of Inkscape with different directories... or different work scenarios with different ones, etc.
I tend to agree - I've thought this myself since running across that XDG spec some time back.
Bryce
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
The immediately useful function would be g_get_user_config_dir().
This sounds good, but before the change we need to be sure this function gives a sane result on Windows too. Has anyone tested that?
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:23 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
The immediately useful function would be g_get_user_config_dir().
This sounds good, but before the change we need to be sure this function gives a sane result on Windows too. Has anyone tested that?
I agree with the effort to use the functions, but we need to also check to make sure they don't creep up our Glib version requirements.
--Ted
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