Hi All,

> %APPDATA would point to \documents and
> settings\username\Application Data

> Does anyone have any info as to which one would be
> more appropriate?

We're "technically" supposed to use "%APPDATA%\DQSD" in order to
provide users with the most secure and manageable environment.

Also, this could cause duplication of many searches if we were to
provide users with the ability to each have their own config. This
would seriously need a different loading mechanism that didn't rely on
file extensions to parse the search files - but rather a user config
option, that listed what searches were disabled, probably in an XML
file that we would use to filter the searches as they were loading,
using an XSL transformation.

The localsearches folder would need to be under:
  %appdata%\dqsd\localsearches\

The 'base' searches should also go under
"%CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA%\dqsd\searches\" because they are files that
must have read access in order for the application to run, but apps
are not *supposed* to 'read' files under program files. Placing them
under "common_appdata" puts them in the "all users" app data folder so
everyone has access to them - but if we were to continue using the
rename-to-disable-searches method we'd effectively disable searches
for all users if one user were to disable their searches.

Alternatively, we could duplicate all the searches in every users
directory, but this is a waste of resources and (IMHO) we shouldn't
seriously entertain it.


> [snip]
> IMHO, this is a huge change and would warrant 4.0
> release.

Oh yeah. This is *not* a minor change.

Regards,

Shawn K. Hall
http://ReliableAnswers.com/

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