Re: AW: Setting new Home dir

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin swing be>]

Andreas Hauber wrote:

> I thought about how gtk knows where the homedir is. There is a default
> button in the dialog with the caption 'Home' and when you click on it
> C:\docs and settings\user\ is opened instead of ...\user\My_Files\ what is
> more what a ms windows dialog would do. Now im asking you where gtk gets the
> information about the homedir so maybe the default could be changed to be
> more windows like.

It gets it from the g_get_home_dir() function. Looking at

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/gutils.c?rev=1.151&view=markup

glib first looks for the %HOME% environment variable, and if not 
present, for the %USERPROFILE% variable.

So, I guess the best is to (re-)define HOME to %USERPROFILE%\My 
Documents in your user profile (Control 
Panel/System/Advanced/Environment Variables) and voilà, the 
filechooserdialog "Home" button will open on the right directory.

Cedric