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[Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/05/2014 04:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I just committed Moses' configuration file relocation patch in r5114.
>
> On Linux the configuration files are now located in $HOME/.config/kicad
> per the FreeDesktop.org specification.  To preserve you current
> settings, you can move the kicad configuration files for your $HOME
> folder to the new location.  You must drop the leading . from the file
> name.  You must also move the fp-lib-table file.  You will have to make
> copies of these files if you plan on using any version of kicad prior to
> r5114.
>
> Sorry windows users but you will have to reconfigure KiCad.  There was
> no easy way to extract the registry keys into configuration files.  The
> configuration files on Windows will be saved in the same folder as
> fp-lib-table which is %APPDATA%\kicad.  You may want to clean the kicad
> cruft from the registry if your not going to use any versions of kicad
> prior to r5114.
>
> There should be no change for OSX users.

Hi Wayne, I'm pretty sure this is not true?  I just dug through the wxWidgets 
source, and it looks like before wxFileConfig wrote the files on OSX in 
~/Library/Preferences, but they now go in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad.

It appears the same was true for fp-lib-table.  As such, the patch I had come up 
with for the library install is attached to this email.  I had not sent it 
before because I was not certain the new config location for OSX was the best 
place, and then kind of forgot about it.

Thanks, Moses

> Can someone please apply the attached patch to the library install in
> the github repo so the fp-lib-table file gets installed in the correct
> path by anyone using the kicad-install.sh script.
>
> Thank you Moses for contributing to KiCad.
>
> Sorry about the inconvenience but this change fixes the $HOME folder
> configuration file pollution on Linux and removing the configuration
> from the Windows registry which both users and developers have been
> pushing for.
=== modified file 'CMakeLists.txt'
--- CMakeLists.txt	2014-01-17 19:56:42 +0000
+++ CMakeLists.txt	2014-09-03 21:30:58 +0000
@@ -41,9 +41,13 @@
 
 
 if( UNIX )
-    set( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR $ENV{HOME} CACHE PATH "Location of user specifig KiCad config files" )
+	if( APPLE )
+	    set( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR $ENV{HOME}/Library/Preferences/kicad CACHE PATH "Location of user specifig KiCad config files" )
+	else()
+	    set( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR $ENV{HOME}/.config/kicad CACHE PATH "Location of user specifig KiCad config files" )
+	endif()
 elseif( MINGW )
-    set( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR $ENV{%APPDATA%} CACHE PATH "Location of user specifig KiCad config files" )
+    set( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR $ENV{%APPDATA%}/kicad CACHE PATH "Location of user specifig KiCad config files" )
 endif()
 mark_as_advanced( KICAD_USER_CONFIG_DIR )