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[Ian <ian.ohara@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Moses,


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to move the kicad config files in linux to a more "proper"
> location as defined by the FreeDesktop specification here:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.htm
> <http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html>

Specifically this would put the files in $HOME/.config/kicad.
>
>
I would love for this to happen, although problems with doing this have
been discussed previously.  See:

https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12009.html for the proposal
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12009.html for the follow
up saying windows causes problems

I'm not capable of commenting on how your patch handles the windows case,
but it seems like that has been the problem
 in the past.

-Ian



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