Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] stamp install fails

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:51:43PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 07:10:19AM +0200, tor...@at... wrote:
> > 
> > If I change the save directory, it also looks for stamps and other stuff where
> > the save directory is. I changed the save directory to My Documents to make it
> > easier to find the images created. I didn't expect that it would also look for
> > brushes and stamps there (and stop looking where the stamps was installed by
> > default). Could/should this behaviour be changed? Alternatively could there be
> > a comment about it in the config program?
> 
> Crud.
> 
> John or someone wanna suggest a patch? ;)
It's an installer issue.

When the stamps are installed by a restricted user, it installs them
into the users default Tux Paint data directory because it knows it can
write there.

The application is commonly installed system-wide in which case they
won't be able to install the stamps in the application directory.

The installer (in general) can't know where the users data directory is
because in common multi-user configurations it will be specified on the
command-line.

However, it should be possible to detect a restricted install of Tux
Paint by the same user and install the stamps in this application
directory. 

I'll take a look at it,

cheers,
John.


> 
> -bill!
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