Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hard coded fg-root path in flightgearstartup?

[geneb <ge...@de...>]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Alan Teeder wrote:

> Whilst we are discussing fg-root can I chime in with some of pet my grudges?
>
> On Windows Flightgear´s directory structure does seem a little confusing -
> to me at least.
>
> I use git and the sources plus fgdata are  in C:\Flightgear.  I have
> Flightgear installed in  C:\Flightgear\install\msvc140-64. I have custom
> aircraft in C:\Flightgear\MyAircraft and custom scenery in
> C:\Flightgear\MyScenery.
>
Just a note - it's bad practice to install software to the root directory 
of the boot drive - it was deemed "bad" once the Program Files directory 
structure was implemented in Windows. (personally, I don't care where you 
install software, I'm just pointing this out from a 'best practices' 
standpoint. :) )

If it was up to me, the executables would live in Program Files (x86) or 
Program Files (x86 vs 64 bit) and ALL the data (and configuration 
files) would live in C:\users\<user>\FlightGear.

The leading dot (.fgfsrc) is how *nix hides filenames.  IMO, no 
configuration file should be hidden - especially if it's expected that the 
end user may make changes by hand editing.  "flightgear.ini" makes more 
sense in that context.

g.

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