Re: [rox-devel] rox config directory not hidden

[Matthew W. O. <mat...@we...>]

-- Guido Schimmels <gu...@ar...> wrote
(on Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 09:55 AM +0200):
> Am 18.02.2004 02:13:40 schrieb(en) Nathaniel Taylor:
> >I'm using a self-compiled rox 2.1.0 on a linux-based system.
> >As far as I have discovered it is not possible to avoid a non-hidden
> >directory ("~/Choices") being used to hold configs after user
> >modification of settings.
> 
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/HidingChoices
> 
> >>>The Choices directory annoys me... can I hide it?
> 
> Yes, this is controlled by the CHOICESPATH environment variable, which  
> is a colon-separated list of directories to search for choices. Choices  
> are saved into the first directory. See The Choices System for details.  
> You probably want to put something like this in one of your shell's  
> initialization files (i.e. ~/.bash_profile if you use bash):
> 
> export CHOICESPATH=${HOME}/.Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/ 
> share/Choices

I've been doing this since I started using ROX -- I like the single
directory with all configs, but I don't want to accidently click into it
when in ROX (it looks too much like my Apps directory!). It has the
advantage of being hidden along with that of eliminating the number of
hidden directories in your home environment.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/