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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

For what may be the first time ever in KiCad, I vote in favor of the 
#ifdef. The standard behavior is different on the two operating systems: 
the Windows convention is to default to a documents directory (either 
'Documents' or one specifically created for the application), and the 
Linux convention is to default to CWD which is $HOME when launched from 
the desktop manager. Using an #ifdef for this allows us to have the 
conventional behavior on each system.


On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 01:49:53PM -0400, Mark Roszko wrote:
> So right now KiCad uses wxGetCwd when it needs a default path. On
> Linux this is HOME or wherever to launched it from command line.
> 
> The problem is wxGetCwd returns %PROGRAM FILES%/KiCad as windows uses
> the executable directory by default. This directory is read only on a
> proper Windows 7+ system and requries administrator permissions to
> write. So it is a bad choice.
> 
> Ideally we replace wxGetCwd with
> wxStandardPaths::Get().GetDocumentsDir() which will return
> %USER%/Documents on Windows and HOME on linux.
> 
> Except this will break Linux users being able to launch kicad in
> command line in their favorite folder.
> 
> So do we #ifdef Windows where getCwd used or something else? As of
> right now, wxGetCwd is an bad choice for windows.
> 
> -- 
> Mark
> 
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