Re: bug in NSUserDefaults

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 01:22 PM, Erik Dalen wrote:

> On 2002-02-13 10:50:45 +0000 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Erik Dalen wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> > So if the GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is anything else than ~/GNUstep , 
> > Services won't
> > >> > work..
> >
> > >> > I'd definitely call that a bug.
> >
> > >> Yes ... can you let me know under what circumstances this 
> > happens ... as far
> > >> as I
> > >> know it doesn't.
> >
> > > everytime I load an app..
> > > I tried copying ~/Services to ~/GNUstep/Services and then it worked. 
> > The apps
> > > got some services that is.
> >
> > > But make_services builds the list of services in ~/Services
> > Are you using very old code?  As far as I can see the 
> > GSServicesManager code was updated to fix this a little
> > over a year ago, and I can't think of anywhere else that's likely to 
> > cause this.
>
> nope, I upgrade to the newest CVS stuff every day.

Ok ... found the problem ... looks like confusion in the way 
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomas() works
for NSUserDirectory.

Everyone using the function (myself included) assumed it was using 
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, where in fact it
was not  - it was taking NSHomeDirectory() and appending /GNUstep ... 
which is the wrong thing to do
by any reckoning ... see below.

However, I'm not entirely sure how it should behave ... in MacOS-X there 
is no equivalent of
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, and thus the home directory is always the same as the 
unix users home directory.

In GNUstep, there is a separation between the unix home directory, and 
the root of the users
GNUstep stuff ... the latter is usually a subdirectory of the former.

Perhaps we need another directory key for the function so we can 
differentiate between the two
concepts - but then, should NSUserDirectory refer to the unix home 
directory, or the directory
set by GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT ?

If we make the NSUserDirectory key refer to GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT, then any 
apps ported from MacOS
will be surprised that they do not get to see the contents of the users 
unix home directory.

All rather confusing ...