Re: [Gimp-developer] XDG support and better Windows configuration path

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since we are about to change things here, let's do
> it right and consistent across platforms this time.
>
> I suggest:
>
> OSX: NSApplicationSupportDirectory/GIMP/GIMP_APP_VERSION
> WIN: APPDATA/GIMP/GIMP_APP_VERSION
> XDG: XDG_CONFIG_DIR/GIMP/GIMP_APP_VERSION
>
> which means for master:
>
> OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.9
> WIN: (whatever windows folder i have no clue about)\GIMP\2.9
> XDG: ~/.config/GIMP/2.9
>
> I know the part before "GIMP/2.9" should be handled
> by g_get_user_config_dir(), but until it does, let's
> do the right thing anyway.
>
> Comments?
>
> --mitch
>
>
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Yes, I think this will break a whole lot of folks who have gotten into
the "bad" habit already with c:/Users/$Username/.gimp-x.x while OSX
just went from .gimp-x.x to ~/Library/Application Support/gimp-x.x to
~/Library/GIMP/x.x back to ~/Library/Application Support/gimp-x.x.

Can't we simply make this a user configuration as it used to be before
where one could select the user directory?

Of course, if the above will be the rule, at least publicize it in advance?