[Monodevelop-devel] [MonoDevelop] Feedback wanted: Settings and data storage locations

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Carlo Kok <ck at carlo-kok.com> wrote:
> One easy way to do this would be like Firefox and even Visual Studio
> does it, is a "profile". You can start it with --profile "profilename"
> and it uses a different directory store the settings (and plugin cache).

We could just have --profile take a full path. Then, on all platforms, use
$PROFILE/Data
$PROFILE/Cache
$PROFILE/Preferences
$PROFILE/Logs

But I'd still like to get the "default" locations correct, because
most users will not want to bother with profiles.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com