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

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 09:46:54 PDT 2015


On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

This annoyance is still there. I would call it a blocker if log is
always marked as modified.

miika


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