having Marble find the right data files

[Henrik Brautaset Aronsen]

Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> They don't actually support search paths. They mention this in the
> comments as a feature they should add eventually... there are two
> directories that things are looked for. One system directory
> (/usr/share/apps/marble or something) and a local directory
> (~/.local/share/marble). And all we can do is replace the system path
> with a different one. But doing that means that Marble now no longer
> finds lots of other files, for example its default icons. For most of
> them that seems fine as I don't think lacking the icons for
> "manned_landing", "robotic_rover", "unmanned_hard_landing" or the
> various types of places of worship that Marble supports is necessarily a
> big issues for Subsurface, but at least the default_location icon seemed
> important. And since we now need to carry our own, I replaced the boring
> circle with a tiny dive flag.

How about checking if ~/.local/share/marble/maps/earth/googlemaps exists 
upon Subsurface startup, and offer to copy the files?

[No thanks, use builtin maps]
[Yes, copy the files]
[?] Ask again next time

Henrik

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