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

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 07:46:54PM +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
> 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.

I don't see that. So I wonder what's different. I guess I need to start
with all preferences cleared and try again?

/D