re: shell32: symlink user's profile shell folders to xdg well known directories [2/2] (try 3)

[Dan Kegel]

I feel like a broken record, but:
some apps don't like following symlinks, and the
native Windows way to configure what the "My Foo"
folders point to is called shell folder redirection;
These are documented at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242557
among other places, and I think Wine supports these
registry settings.  Is there any reason we don't want
to use these instead of symlinks?
- Dan

shell32: symlink user's profile shell folders to xdg well known directories [2/2] (try 3)

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dan Kegel" <dank(a)kegel.com> writes:
> I feel like a broken record, but:
> some apps don't like following symlinks, and the
> native Windows way to configure what the "My Foo"
> folders point to is called shell folder redirection;
> These are documented at
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242557
> among other places, and I think Wine supports these
> registry settings.  Is there any reason we don't want
> to use these instead of symlinks?

We want the paths to remain valid even if the drive configuration is
changed, so they have to point somewhere inside the C: drive.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org

shell32: symlink user's profile shell folders to xdg well known directories [2/2] (try 3)

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Dan Kegel" <dank(a)kegel.com> writes:
> > I feel like a broken record, but:
> > some apps don't like following symlinks, and the
> > native Windows way to configure what the "My Foo"
> > folders point to is called shell folder redirection;
> > These are documented at
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242557
> > among other places, and I think Wine supports these
> > registry settings.  Is there any reason we don't want
> > to use these instead of symlinks?
>
> We want the paths to remain valid even if the drive configuration is
> changed, so they have to point somewhere inside the C: drive.

Also, iirc, on the Unix side these directories are supposed to be 
movable relatively easily. If we put their path directly in the 
registry, we'll get lots of bad copies in the applications MRU lists, 
and elsewhere when they change (or when you move the .wine directory to 
another account/machine).

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