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

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Natterer
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 13:21 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: Hi, On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Partha Bagchi parth...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org wrote: Hi all, Since we are about to change things here, let's do it right and

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

2012-10-11 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thursday, October 11, 2012, 0:12:32, Michael Natterer wrote: WIN: APPDATA/GIMP/GIMP_APP_VERSION Sounds great to me. -- Jernej Simončič http://eternallybored.org/ If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damned near zero. -- Fourth Law of Thermodynamics

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

2012-10-11 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 13:21 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: That leads me to wonder: what do we want to do if the variable is set: 1) We save directly under this path. Hence we never know if a version bump (or downgrade)

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

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Natterer
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 16:12 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: We can't do that, gimp_directory() returns the folder where stuff is stored, and i should stay that way. I must have badly explained, because that's not what I wanted to tell. :-) gimp_directory() will still and always return where

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

2012-10-11 Thread Graeme Gill
Michael Natterer wrote: 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 Having looked into this, I'm not sure that's correct. I think it should be: OSX: ~/Library/Preferences/GIMP/2.9

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

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Natterer
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 05:34 -0400, Partha Bagchi wrote: Don't get me wrong, I personally think it is a good idea to confirm to an OS's native file standards and this will in some sense legitimize Gimp. :). I didn't :) With User configuration I meant, setting the the configuration option

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

2012-10-10 Thread Partha Bagchi
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Michael Natterer mi...@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

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

2012-10-10 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Michael Natterer mi...@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: