Re: $GNUSTEP_DEFAULTS_DIR not set/exported in GNUstep.sh

[Simon Stapleton]

On 30 Jul 2004, at 17:53, Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

>  1. have window maker detect and parse ~/.GNUsteprc.  You can probably
> copy code from user_home.c (assuming licenses are compatible of 
> course).
> If a defaults directory is set there, use it.  If a gnustep user 
> directory
> is set there, append Library/Defaults/ and use it.  Else, just use
> ~/GNUstep/Library/Defaults/ (I think, check what the default is).

Hmm.  Off the top of my head, surely a better option (and I can't 
check, don't have the windowmaker source to hand) would be to refactor 
the defaults handling of windowmaker to use NSUserDefaults instead of 
relying on the environment variables directly.  Under GNUstep only, of 
course.  That way, under GNUstep, it would use the right directory 
automagically, and under plain *n*x it would rely on whatever its 
current methodology is.

I appreciate that this causes code duplication, but it's the only way 
to make something _really_ *step compliant and have it work under plain 
*n*x as well.

No?

Simon

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