[Gambas-user] Probem analysing Desktop path

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Even better!

Shell "xdg-user-dir DESKTOP" To sPathOfDesktop

Maybe Benoit could add this natively to User class?

Jussi





On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 21:55, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:

> In Ubuntu desktop path is in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
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> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 21:51, Willy Raets <willy at ...2734...>wrote:
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>> On di, 2012-03-06 at 20:34 +0100, Matti wrote:
>> > Willy,
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>> > The easiest solution to store some infos would be to use gb.settings.
>> > Then you don't have to care about directories at all, gambas does it
>> for you,
>> > and you can read/write the infos very easily.
>> > See http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.settings
>> > But I don't know what you store in your SystemInfo.txt, maybe this is
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>> > practicable.
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>> That would not be practical. The SystemInfo.txt is a file that provides
>> system information (like window manager used, desktop used, gambas
>> version, gambas path, and a lot more) and error information (when an
>> error occurs) from systems the application run on.
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>> For example: I have some problems not related to my application but
>> related to Gambas version runtime installed (gbx2 < 2.22 gives problems)
>> on the users system.
>> Solution when I get a SystemInfo.txt from him would be upgrade runtime
>> to version 2.22 or 2.23. Understand the reason.
>> I have some other problem related only on certain distros with KDE for
>> example.
>> This systeminfo text is central in my error reporting system as it tells
>> me a lot about the behaviour of my application on different distros,
>> desktops and so on. Really useful to me.
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>> > If so, why do you want to use "~/Desktop" by all means? Why not make a
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>> > "~/.YourApp" and store the SystemInfo.txt there? So it would be the
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>> > every system?
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>> Putting the file on the desktop makes it easy for the user to find and
>> send back to me. We are talking end users here, so it needs to be easy
>> for them. That is why.
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>> I was hoping for something like on Widows (%desktop%) which always works
>> no matter what language, but I guess there is no sort of equivalent that
>> works on all linux distros. At least I could not find it.
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>> Thanks for thinking along
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>> Willy
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