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From: | h.g. muller |
Subject: | Re: [XBoard-devel] Opening pgn files in xboard |
Date: | Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:34:15 +0100 |
if we add a .xboard directory, we should make this configurable, so that different distributions can add their preferred directory for this... on my computer many programs seem to use ~/.config/<progname> for example.
Indeed, although this might be cumbersome, as it would require modification of the .desktop files before offeringthem to the systemwith xdg-....It is also awkward that the user settings are not stored in that same directory, but in ~/.xboardrc . Do distributions define a variable for this, similar to $DATADIR,
which we could draw on in the cofigure/make process?If necessary we could add a new option -userDirectory, for which we set the default through a configure-supplied macro, and a new option similar to -ini or -at/-opt/@ which looks in the userDir rather than in the current directory for the settings file,
and does not complain when it is not there (-userIni?).
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