[PATCH 1/1] Use ~/.subsurface as default directory on Linux

[Miika Turkia]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:04:11PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>> On 11 October 2015 at 11:28, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 11 October 2015 at 08:36, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> I only just noticed that cloud storage now uses (and automatically
>> >> creates) the ~/subsurface directory. Perhaps I missed some discussion
>> >> about it, but I would much prefer a name that starts with a dot. Does
>> >> the attached patch makes sense to you?
>> >>
>> >
>> > ACK.
>> >
>>
>> the dot is the way to go,
>>
>> i find it odd that ~/subsurface (no dot) was the suggested path for
>> the user default XML, since version 2.0 (or something) and nobody
>> complained
>> i think this indicates that nobody was using the default XML path on Linux.
>
> I'm not sure that's true - we did a few odd things that people seemed to
> just accept. But now is the time to fix it :-)
>
> I'll take Gaetan's patch and that fixes this issue.

This patch causes the log file to always be opened in edited mode. (I
have my preferences set to load the log from the old location, as I
suppose most of our users currently have.)

miika