[Scummvm-devel] different default savepath for *nix
M. Uli Kusterer
Witness.of.TeachText at gmx.net
Sat Apr 17 07:23:02 CEST 2004
At 14:27 Uhr +0200 17.04.2004, Max Horn wrote:
>Is there any reason for the above locations outside the CWD, besides
>making ScummVM working out-of-the box on read-only volumes?
Hi Max, let me unlurk for a moment :-)
I personally would prefer if ScummVM didn't litter the directory it
lives in with savegames. As I can't double-click a savegame to play
it (on MacOS X, at least), it is really annoying to have oodles of
"useless" file icons interspersed with my games and the ScummVM app.
So, IMHO "Preferences" or "Application Support" would be the ideal
choice for savegames IMHO.
>Why not rather have ScummVM check, when it is being started, whether
>the active savepath (whatever it is), is writable. If not, pop up a
>dialog to the user, tell 'em about it, and let them choose another
>location, which is then stored in the config file.
This sounds like a useful feature for the other Unices/Linuxen.
Though I still think that only a command-line tool should be allowed
to create files in the CWD. It should at least create a directory and
put those files in there, IMHO. But I admit I'm not too well
acquainted with Unix dos and don'ts, so feel free to correct me on
that latter part.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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