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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,
I had a look at the ~/Library/Preferences, and noted a bunch of files like Adam described.
Apple also use "Quicktime Preferences” for the quicktime settings.
Then Parallels use a directory at that level, and Macromedia does the same thing ( I have a subdir called Flash Player), and a few more dirs under that. Adobe does the same thing with an "Adobe" directory and a subdir “Acrobat”.
So I would not see an issue with a “Kicad” directory here and either preference files under Kicad, or subduers for eeschema, pcbnew, etc..

My $0.02,
Jean-Paul
AC9GH



 
On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I took a look at the UI guidelines, and most of what I saw was referring to OS X apps that use the official Preferences API.
> 
> I just did a quick audit of what is in my ~/Library/Preferences.
> 
> I have 193 files, almost all named like org.videolan.vlc.plist (with a few exceptions, these are named "<product name> Preferences".  These are readable and writable using the OS X Preferences API--which we are not.
> 
> I have the following directories:
> 
> AndroidStudioPreview
> ByHost
> calibre
> IdeaIC13
> org.videolan.vlc
> PyCharm30
> Saleae
> VMware Fusion
> WebStorm7
> 
> Inside the Saleae directory, for example, are the following files
> 
> adams-mbp:Preferences wolf$ find Saleae
> Saleae
> Saleae/Errors
> Saleae/settings.xml
> 
> I think, based on what's randomly installed on my machine, that ~/Library/Preferences/kicad/ is like what other people do when they have preferences files that don't match the Apple native API for preferences.
> 
> Unless the question is "then we'll have two layers of pref directories", i.e. ~/Library/Preferences/kicad/gerbview Preferences/
> 
> and I think that's ok too.  My reasoning is that the majority of folks will be installing Kicad as one piece, so if they want to backup their preferences, they probably want to back them all up as one piece too.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/6/2014 9:10 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:31:38PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > And there will be much rejoicing and feasting and that other thing like
> > that.
> >
> > And an horde of user asking how to maintain the current configuration :D
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> 
> I posted the same email on the KiCad user's group so that should cover a
> reasonably large percentage of the user's.  I'm sure we will get a few
> complaints but that comes with the territory. :)
> 
> 
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