Re: How to use global and user related files?

[Peter <volkov_peter list ru>]

Well. 

I'm answering to myself in hope that anybody corrects me if I'm wrong.
Also may be somebody is looking for the same questions in this list.:)

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:23:37 +0400, Peter wrote:
> How to find user related dirrectory?

In pan (newsreader) sources I've found g_get_home_dir ().

> Also program may already have some data files in /usr/share/appname
> dirrectory, so I need to check the existance of file there and if I do not
> have file there create a new one in ~/.appname.

This is prorgam related. To look for files in /usr/share it's better to
write in makefile.am something like:

data_PROGRAMAME=list_of_files

INCLUDES=-DDATADIR=\"$(datadir)\"

And then in program path to look at should be (DATADIR"filename").
 
> To add users possibility to look for  files in dirrectories that may be
> mentioned in some environment variable (APPNAMEDIR="path1:path2").

There exist function g_getenv (); But does there exist simple and common
way to parse PATH variable?
 
Thank you for you attention,
Peter.