Ticket #2658 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

Respect traditional placement of user preferences on Mac OS X

Reported by: annulen Owned by:
Priority: trivial Milestone: 4.8.1
Component: mc-core Version: 4.8.0
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Branch state: no branch Votes for changeset:

Description

mc 4.8.0 moves configuration files from .mc to .config/mc to be XDG-compliant. However, it seems to be alien on Mac, where it would be expected to have preferences in directory "~/Library/Application? Support/MidnightCommander?" or similar.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

"~/Library/Application? Support/MidnightCommander?"

That is nightmare.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Priority changed from major to trivial

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

  • Blocked By 2650 added

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

  • Blocked By 2650 removed

comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

  • Blocked By 2636 added

comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by andrew_b

  • Milestone changed from Future Releases to 4.8.1

comment:7 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

Fixed as part of #2636. Now you may compile mc like:

./configure ... --with-homedir="Library/Application Support/MidnightCommander"

comment:8 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko

  • Blocked By 2636 removed
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