Linux preferences

Andre Garzia soapdog at mac.com
Thu May 11 20:51:42 EDT 2006


Sarah,

they expect it to be saved in their home folder ($HOME or ~) with a  
name beggining with a "." (so that it be hidden) like:

.mySweetPrefsFile

so you can use URL "file:~/.mySweetPrefs"

cheers
andre

On May 11, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Sorry, I feel I've asked this before, but I can't find the answer in
> the archives.
>
> Where do Linux users expect preferences to be saved?
>
> In Macs I use the specialFolderPath("Preferences").
> In Windows I use specialFolderPath(26).
>
> What is the Linux equivalent? specialFolderPath doesn't seem to be a
> function that works under Linux.
>
> On a related topic, what is the path for the user's documents folder
> in Linux and how do to find it? Or is it considered OK just to store
> data in the application's folder (doesn't sound Linux-ish).
>
> TIA,
> Sarah
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