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[Mark Talluto]

On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Bob Warren wrote:
>
>> For example, I recently completed a pair of file/picture chooser  
>> widgets for Linux, which I offered to the Rev community. However,  
>> from the beginning of my programming effort I discovered that  
>> certain fundamental functions described in the Help had apparently  
>> not been implemented. For example, the function specialFolderPath.  
>> I did not manage to get any information whatsoever out of this  
>> function, different to my experience in Windows and different (I  
>> imagine) to what it would be in Mac. As a result I had to  
>> (temporarily?) direct my widgets for use in Ubuntu Linux rather  
>> than Linux generally - very serious.
>
> Just to clarify, does specialFolderPath return the proper value  
> under Ubuntu?  Which constants work with it?
>
> The docs don't mention Linux at all, while they do list the  
> constants available for Classic, OS X, and Windows.  So from the  
> docs it's not clear whether specialFolderPath is expected to work  
> at all right now under Linux.
>
> If it works in one flavor of Linux but not others, while  
> momentarily annoying it bodes well for the future, as it implies  
> the effort was made for it to work on Linux but it simply has some  
> bugs in the current release.
>
> This is especially interesting to me, as I'm planning on my first  
> Linux release later this year.  I'll be watching Linux-related  
> threads closely....


Last I checked, specialFolderPath does not work on Linux.  I have not  
checked this out in 2.7 though. Maybe something has changed.


Mark Talluto
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