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-----Forwarded Message----- >From: James Mckenzie <[email protected]> >Sent: May 21, 2010 8:20 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Release plans > >[email protected] wrote: >> >>>> And I didn't write trivial Mac patches either, e.g. to have >>>> wineprefixcreate symlink c:\users\xyz\ Desktop + Videos + Documents + >>>> Music to /Users/xyz/Desktop/ etc. This happens on Linux, not on MacOS. >>>> That's another (example of a) missing element. >>>> (Why didn't I write it? Because I was unsure where to put the #ifdef) >>>Isn't that linking done relative to $HOME, which should resolve to >>>/Users/xyz on Mac? >>That's not the problem. What I also don't know is whether I could hardcode >>the directories ~/Documents etc. > >AFIAK, I would not hard code them, but give a default of $HOME/Documents and >$HOME/Desktop (this would allow users to change the directory, maybe through >the registry or through environment variables. (these already exist in my >/Users/xyz, >>but what about Tiger? > >I don't think there are many Intel Macs running Tiger anymore and Darwine is >completely dead. > >>or whether I ought to call some OSX API that >>yields the name of the dir (and possibly creates it if it does not yet exist). > >This is a third idea that we may want to look at. > >>I'm not familiar at all with Mac APIs, but it sounds like an easy patch >>for somebody with a little MacOS programming knowledge. >> >Hmmm. >> >>>> What can Mac users expect from this release? >>>Hopefully, conversion to Linux :-). >>Actually, one day I was fed up with the Gnome and KDE4 GUIs, >>so I started looking for something else. The Mac Mini with >>NVidia came out right at that time: extremely silent (except >>for the CD-ROM), excellent graphics (by far better than >>any onboard Intel I knew previously) and it's a UNIX. >> >My feelings exactly. If Gnome and KDE were so good, why are there other Linux >windows management tools? > >James McKenzie
