[fpc-devel] GetAppConfigDir under Unices

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Nov 4 08:49:20 CET 2005



On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:

> Hi
>
> I just tested SysUtils.GetAppConfigDir under Linux and I see that it returns
>  GetHomeDir + ApplicationName
> (when Global = false). Shouldn't it rather return
>  GetHomeDir + '.' + ApplicationName
> ? Config directories in user's home dir traditionally start with '.' to be 
> somewhat "hidden". I would expect GetAppConfigDir to follow this practice.

It should. I'll have a look at it, thanks for reporting this.

Michael.



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