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Re: a few (minor?) niggles

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From: LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:10:24 +0200
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In response to a message written on 03.09.2015, 12:02, from Cirilo Bernardo:

3d model support. Does anyone have a good idea of how we can determine the
plugin search directory at runtime?  On linux for example a user can do: make
install DESTDIR=${RANDOM_DIRECTORY} so on the program side I would want to
look in ${RANDOM_DIRECTORY}/lib/kicad/3dplugins. Similar issues exist for
operation on MSWin with ${RANDOM_DIRECTORY}.

In Linux local prefix is ~/.local, so ~/.local/share/kicad/3dplugins will be
good idea. IMHO Std plugins path also should be corrected from ~.kicad_plugins
to ~/.local/share/kicad/plugins


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Best Regards,
LordBlick

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a few (minor?) niggles
From: Cirilo Bernardo, 2015-09-03