Re: [Bug-gnubg] .gnubgautorc under windows

[Holger]

At 15:02 17.10.2003, Jon Kinsey wrote:
> At 12:33 17/10/2003, Holger wrote:
>
> > Imho we should better use %APPDATA% if we decide to not leave the files 
> > below the gnubg install tree. At least here on this machine no single 
> > application has placed any file or folder directly in %USERPROFILE%.
> > The paths are:
> > USERPROFILE=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username
> > APPDATA=C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Anwendungsdaten
> > Mozilla stores the user profiles e.g. in (thus in %APPDATA%\Mozilla):
> > C:\Dokumente und 
> > Einstellungen\username\Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Profiles\default\lt7r8rzs.slt\
>
> I agree, although windows 2000 doesn't have APPDATA defined.

I'm just now sitting at Win2k (Pro), and here it's defined. Don't know what 
this depends on.

> So perhaps several layers are needed:
> if APPDATA defined then %APPDATA%
> else if USERPROFILE defined %USERPROFILE%\_("Application Data")
> else .gnubg

My other idea about saving per user settings in 
gnubg_folder\.gnubg\username might still be worthwhile to think about. I'm 
not supporting it too strongly, though.

Extended and thought a bit further it could give this:
On quite a lot of Windows systems the environment variable %USERNAME% 
exists. Based on this we could store and load user settings from 
gnubg_folder\.gnubg\username. With this path we would be on the safe side 
for all Windows versions, whether a %USERPROFILE% or even %APPDATA% folder 
exists or not. In case %USERNAME% is missing, it could still be set by a 
switch (e.g. -u) or by getting the current user via GetUserName which 
exists for all flavours of Windows 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getusername.asp). 
With the switch one could also create various links and thus mutiple 
profiles/settings of gnubg for the same user.

Regards,

        Holger