[Scummvm-devel] Windows experience

[Johannes Schickel]

On 01/26/2012 12:34 AM, Travis Howell wrote:
> On 26/01/2012 9:09 AM, Johannes Schickel wrote:
>> I would still love to see the save games in a easily accessable path by
>> default, i.e. unlike a subdir of %APPDATA%, since %APPDATA% does not
>> show in the explorer by default. That makes it even easier for users to
>> copy over the save files, despite us having links to the save game
>> directory.
> Actually accessing that area under Windows 2000/XP is as simple as
> running '%APPDATA%'. Or people could just enable hidden files, under the
> Folder Options of Windows Explorer. We could add these notes to the
> README file, to help people too.
>
> The links on the Start Menu are still the easiest method for any
> inexperienced users to access the saved games area. Even if the default
> saved game directory, was not under a hidden area.
>
>> As several people pointed out in IRC, our forums and on this mailing
>> list starting with Vista (or maybe only 7, can't remember right now)
>> Windows offers a "%USERPROFILE%/Saved Games" directory for exactly this.
>> So personally I think we should consider taking advantage of that, maybe
>> even using the same path for NT/2k/XP.
> The standard location for saved games under Windows Vista/7 was
> mentioned throughout the previous discussion, but not that fact it was
> no longer a hidden area.
>
> It isn't worth creating a new "%USERPROFILE%/Saved Games" section under
> Windows NT4/2000/XP, when it will only be used by a single program.
>
> I'm against changing the default save games directory again, since these
> changes have already been made to ScummVM. We will have users who are
> using the new save games directory, which would require further migration.
>

Personally I think if we really want to change it again we should do it 
before the next major ScummVM release. But if nobody seems to think it's 
needed then we can stay as is of course.

On a related matter: I saw we already mention that we got new default 
paths for Win NT+ in our NEWS file, but I think we should also point to 
a guide on how to migrate the save files to the new default location.

// Johannes