Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On May 6, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
It would, but only on really ancient versions, and as I understood they're not supported anyway (and they probably don't have a My Documents directory to begin with, so Inkscape could fall back on the current behaviour if it isn't supported). If it's deemed too much trouble then that's fine, but I think it would be nice if Inkscape's autosave feature would be a bit more obvious by saving files to a less obscure directory. Of course alternatively (or additionally) Inkscape could offer to open auto-saved documents on the next launch, but that might be quite a bit more complex to do correctly.
Well... we try to support as much as we can. In fact, some of those issues were hit by actual users.
I can apreciate that, it's just that I thought GTK wasn't supported anymore on Win9x at all (not sure about WinNT 4 though). If you know of anyone who can test with such systems I wouldn't mind seeing if the code I mailed later does work on such systems.
Now... you'd also just asked about the history on this. Moving forward, if you don't see it already entered then go ahead and set a bug for this. We may even have more code around, and just need to use it in a more centralized manner.
If you (or anyone else) can point me in the right direction, and nobody objects to such a change, I wouldn't mind writing a patch (assuming the tests mentioned above have positive results) and submitting it somewhere. I have been able to build Inkscape in the past. If you think this could better be solved differently or something, I'd also be happy to simply file a bug/feature request.