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Message #01358
Re: policy question relating to PortableApps.com Zim package -- absolute paths stored in notebooks.list
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Brendan Kidwell <snarf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So my question is this: How hard would it be to make Zim write paths in
>> notebooks.list RELATIVE to $HOME instead of absolute? If it's doable, should
>> we do it? Should I open a Bug for it?
>
>
> Sounds doable - I'll look into it - probably make the same change
> transparent for all config files.
>
Has been checked in as rev439. Notebook list and some other config items now
use paths relative to the HOME folder. So if you start zim with e.g. a bat
file that sets HOME to point to the thumb drive it should work
transparently.
-- Jaap
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