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[Ian <ian.ohara@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Ian <ian.ohara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>

Sorry, screwed up the first link.  Here is the initial proposal from that
thread: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg12005.html


> 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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