Re: extension cannot find glade ui file

[Tim Horton <hortont424 gmail com>]

On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:27, Mjumbe Poe wrote:

I'd guess it's looking in epiphany's current-working-directory, which is likely not what you want.

you're right, it's looking in the working directory (i copied the ui
file to my home folder and started up epiphany from a terminal; found
the file, no problem).  not really ideal.

I hadn't considered this before; does anyone know how this worked in the Python days?

i don't know how it worked with python extensions, but wouldn't it
make sense to use the same paths that it searches for .extension
files?

It would be convenient, but not actually make sense. These are just calls out to the actual C functions, which don't take search paths or anything like that, they just look in the cwd.

It would appear that in the Python days, people did things like:

os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "delicious%d.png" % pixels)

You can use some combination of GLib.path_get_basename and GLib.build_filename and friends, but I'm not sure that we expose the script path (__file__, in python) in the case of epiphany extensions (we do in the case of the 'seed' interpreter, but maybe not the library, I'm not sure).

Maybe there's another Epiphany-y way to get the path to the extensions directory?

thanks,
- mjumbe