[Mono-list] Cross-platform user settings files

[Danny]

The built-in app.config features work fine cross-platform.  Even custom 
configuration sections and all of that.  Our system uses them 
extensively for system composition (ie: defining which components should 
be started at runtime) on both .NET and Mono.  But that type of setting 
setup is per-application; it doesn't make an ideal per-user 
configuration system unless you create your own construct within it. 
Totally feasible, but probably not what the OP was getting at.

On 12/28/2012 08:11 PM, Daniel Lo Nigro wrote:
> What's wrong with the built-in Application Settings features in the .NET
> Framework? I've never tested this with Mono, but it's been there since
> .NET Framework 2.0 so I assume it would work fine. The .NET Framework
> handles loading and saving the settings into an XML file, and gives
> strongly-typed access to all the properties.
>
> See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k4s6c3a0(v=vs.100).aspx
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Hristo Pavlov <hristo_dpavlov at yahoo.com
> <mailto:hristo_dpavlov at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>     What is the recommended way to save user settings files from Mono
>     across different platforms?
>     For example I have an XML file with settings that I want to store
>     somewhere. I thought the IsolatedFileStorage would be a good place
>     but I have permission problems (read and write) on both Mac OSX and
>     Linux.
>     Would the solution require setting file access permissions during
>     deployment or is there a place a user can always save a file?
>     Where is the best location on Linux/Mac OSX to store such setting files?
>     Regards,
>     Hristo Pavlov
>
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