[Mono-list] How to get user's HOME directory

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
07 Apr 2003 12:57:14 +0100


On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:34, Stefan Saring wrote:
> I agree with you, that this would be the best way:
> Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
> 
> But it does not work (Linux, mono 0.23) and most of the other
> SpecialFolder constants does not work too. Could be a bug or the mono
> people don't want to port it, because it's too Win32 specific.

Classes get implemented as they are needed.  We are aiming for a
complete corlib, so bits will not be left out for being w32 specific. 
It's just that there aren't 2400 hours in a day...

- Dick