having Marble find the right data files

[Dirk Hohndel]

On May 25, 2013 11:05:25 PM Henrik Brautaset Aronsen 
<subsurface at henrik.synth.no> wrote:
> Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > I have thought about doing this as well. Given how small these files are
> > I guess it's not too big of a deal - but it makes the question about the
> > potential violation of Google's terms of service more difficult. If we
> > use the Google maps just inside of Subsurface it is clear that they are
> > not used for navigation, for example. Yet if we copy these files into
> > the user's ~/.local directory then any app using Marble will (be able
> > to) use the Google maps... so this is definitely going a step further
> > than what I did.
> >
> > So I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with your change :-(
>
> Fair enough.  But if we don't find a way of making Marble do what we need, 
> this is the only solution right now for installed versions of Subsurface.  
> Right?

Well, the trick is to figure out that it is an installed version and then 
use a different, appropriate path...

/D