Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Settings directory on Mac

[Seph M. S. <se...@mi...>]

Yes, that's the code as it is right now. if -settings= is detected the  
mac relocation feature is disabled. I think this is what we'll go  
with. I agree with Kevin (off-list mail) that we should just move the  
dir. I just think that we should leave a note saying "oh hi - we've  
moved to ~/Library/jEdit", so people know where to go.

Anyway - I think we can agree that this feature will just be used for  
mac then. Thanks everyone.

Regards,
seph

On 19/02/2009, at 15:22, Shlomy Reinstein wrote:

> I think you should only "relocate" the settings if the default
> settings directory was used. If the settings directory was explicitly
> set on the command-line ("-settings=..."), do not relocate because you
> don't know the reason. Users may be directing their settings to a
> portable USB Flash disk (i.e. disk-on-key), for example.
> Shlomy
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Seph M. Soliman <se...@mi...>  
> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>>
>> Since Mac OS X has a specialized directory for applications and their
>> settings ($home/Library/$appname/)I think it's only fair that we use
>> it. I found out that actually requires tiny changes, but can have  
>> some
>> nasty repercussions: Everyone on mac will suddenly be booting their
>> version from a clean slate. I belive we would get a lot of questions
>> about this but the solution is quite simple: Move the old
>> settingsdirectory to the new one. So I implemented this.
>>
>> So what's this about? Well.. The functionality I made is pretty
>> generic. All it does it check for the old directory and imports it
>> into the new if it doesn't exist. But using -settings=foo then raises
>> a question: Should it relocate the old settings to the new custom
>> location?
>>
>> When I say relocate, i mean copy... Deletion could be potentially
>> dangerous.
>>
>> What do you guys think?
>>
>> Regards
>> Seph
>>
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