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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am working on this.  Hopefully I'll get it done sometime this week.
I'm trying weed out all of the places that this problem exists before I
commit the change.

On 8/29/2015 2:30 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 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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