Re: Opening pgn files in xboard

Den 03-01-2012 12:34, h.g. muller skrev:
>
>> if we add a .xboard directory, we should make this configurable, so that
>> different distributions can add their preferred directory for this... on
>> my computer many programs seem to use ~/.config/<progname> for example.
>
> Indeed, although this might be cumbersome, as it would require modification
> of the .desktop files before offeringthem to the systemwith xdg-....
> It is also awkward that the user settings are not stored in that same
> directory,
> but in ~/.xboardrc . Do distributions define a variable for this,
> similar to $DATADIR,
> which we could draw on in the cofigure/make process?

I don't think so.

> If necessary we could add a new option -userDirectory, for which we set
> the default
> through a configure-supplied macro, and a new option similar to -ini or
> -at/-opt/@
> which looks in the userDir rather than in the current directory for the
> settings file,
> and does not complain when it is not there (-userIni?).

I agree, but would prefer names like -userConfigDir and -userConfigFile