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Re: [gnome-love] getting the user's home directory



On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:51 +0200, wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I'm developing a library, and I need to store some files in the user's home
> directory.  Idealy, I'd like to make a .hml directory, and just throw the files
> under it like
> 
> /home/ian
>        |---.hml
>              |---file0
>              |---file1
>              |---....
>              |---fileN
> 
> obviously, this is pretty standard stuff, but I was wondering if there was any
> accepted wisdom for getting at the current user's home directory.  I'd like to
> only depend on glib.  so i guess, g_get_home_dir is the way to go, right? 
> Again, this is a library, not an application.

Using g_get_home_dir is probably a good idea. It does work really hard
to get things right (look at the g_get_any_init function in
<http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/gutils.c?rev=1.131&view=auto>
and be thankful for our base libraries!), and does so too in windows,
which might be useful if your library has uses there.

-- m


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Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>

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