[fpc-pascal] GetAppConfigDir but for temp data?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Dec 3 21:09:59 CET 2008


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Mattias G?rtner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> :-) Like I said, Linux has a long way to go for desktop friendly apps.
> >
> > desktop friendly <> mono culture
> 
> I don't understand?  What I meant by "dekstop friendly apps" is....
> Take a simple example. Under Windows you are guaranteed that if you
> want to show a user a readme.txt file, you can call notepad.exe and
> the filename (yes I know you can do it in other ways too, but I did
> say this example is simple.). 

That would be a bad experience for me, since I have registered .txt with
notepad plus, not notepad.

So it is not proper windows behaviour.




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