Am 24.08.2014 um 17:18 schrieb Matthew Brush:
On 14-08-22 11:23 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
Hi,
lately, I started building a new Windows installer which includes a recent GTK 2.24 runtime for Windows which need for future releases.
While most things went fine I noticed one problem:
GTK, in detail Glib, changed the way g_get_user_data_dir() works on Windows: in older releases, something GLib 2.28 or 2.26 and older, g_get_user_data_dir() returned c:\users<username>\AppData\Roaming, in newer GLib versions it returns c:\users<username>\AppData\Local.
This affects users who already have a config directory located in <...>\Roaming and Geany would look in <...>\Local now.
This is the change I'm talking about: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/gutils.c?id=9d80c361418f94c609...
How do we want to handle this?
- continue using the <...>\Roaming directory (and so not using
g_get_user_data_dir() anymore)
If we went this route we could use something like the attached patch[0]. Maybe it's what the linked commit is referring to about proper Windows programs probably not using those GLib functions?
leave the code as it is, resulting in a new complete config for users
add some code to check if a config in <...>\Roaming exists and if so,
move it to <...>\Local
I was thinking about it a bit and it might be good to keep using the "Roaming" one (ie. whatever Win32 API gives as correct dir) since IIUC it allows users on a domain to sync their config between machines on login/logout. As mentioned in the linked commit, the function we use (g_get_user_config_dir()) only changed to match g_get_user_data_dir(), not because it's the actually a better or more appropriate directory.
Hmm, ok. We could do it this way either. I have no clue about this roaming stuff, just thought it might be good to follow GLib to be consistent with config dir location. But I don't mind much.
I'd implement this way first, based on your patch, and if we want, we can change to .../Local later anyway if desired.
Thanks.
Regards, Enrico