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Re: Linux improvements [message #13252 is a reply to message #13248]

Wed, 26 December 2007 11:16

mirek
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mdelfede wrote on Tue, 25 December 2007 18:03

luzr wrote on Tue, 25 December 2007 19:33

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* Configuration files ("ConfigFile") are put under .upp directory instead directly to root

Uhmmmm... I don't like too much that one.
I have upp (devel) in ~/sources/uppdev, so theide don't find config anymore.
In Linux is usual to keep config files on a per-user basis in its home dir as before.

Sorry for deficient description. But "root" and ".upp" I have of course meant "~" and "~/.upp".

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IMHO, the best would be (as sometimes in windows) to keep configs on the dir where app resides (I know, now Linux purists will shoot me Smile

), pity that on unix there's no reliable way (AFAIK) to find the path where app resides and, more, usually that path is owned by root, so not writeable.

Actually, GetExeDirFile already works in Linux. But just as you say, this is not a good idea, if nothing else because of read-only....

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1) Keep theide executable in /usr/bin
2) Keep upp sources somewhere in /opt/upp
3) Keep MyApps (and user files...) somewhere inside user home dir

Actually, that change was meant about config files only, was not theide specific. It was dealing with general complaing about poluting ~ with many upp app config ".folders".

Mirek

P.S.: OK, next time I will read the whole message before replying Smile

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