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[Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Config file relocation
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 06:58:31 -0500
From: Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 08/31/2014 03:27 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Moses McKnight 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.html
> >
> > Specifically this would put the files in $HOME/.config/kicad.
>
> Yay for not putting junk in the home :D having here the fp-lib-table is
> really ugly. I don't care if it's .config/kicad or .kicad (I don't
> really like many of the freedesktop standard) but having all the stuff
> in one place is really better.
>
> > At first I thought I could just change bin_mod.cpp, but figured out that
> > there were three other places that would need changing as well to catch
> > everything.  So I made a new function in common.h/.cpp called
> > GetNewConfig(...) and changed the four other files to call that instead of
> > creating a wxConfig() object.
>
> Be warned: IIRC there were also serious issues on windows since the
> config classes in wx are tied to the registry or something like that (I
> tried to do that in the past, it didn't go well :D); careful checking is
> needed.

As I mentioned, I didn't change how it is done in Windows, so the
configs are still in the registry there.  If desired it would be trivial
to put them in config files in %APPADATA%\kicad as well.  wxConfig by
default uses the registry in Windows, but that can be changed easily.