Hi Markus,
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:47, Markus Gömmel wrote:
Can anybody tell me why "Desktop" is set to Z: instead of set to "c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\Desktop"?
The code that figures the paths for the 'Personal' and 'Desktop' shellfolders is in dlls/shell32/shellpath.c's _SHGetDefaultValue, starting at line 1261. It queries the $HOME environment variable, which holds the path that refers to the folder that conceptually represents what 'My Documents' is on Windows. The 'Desktop' folder in your $HOME is what conceptually matches the Windows Desktop folder (At least on KDE. And though I can't find it just yet, I guess that's the freedesktop.org standard directory for the desktop).
And as a second question: would it be ok to add "My Music", "My Pictures" and "My Video" to this registry key? I would do this if anybody would agree that it's ok, and would send the necessary patches. Some if my programs blames me about these three missing values. If yes, where should it point to? z:\home\mgoemmel\My Music? Or would it be not much better to also point "Personal" to "c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\My Documents" too?
You probably should add CSIDL_MY[MUSIC|VIDEO|PICTURES] to the 'folders' array in shellpath.c's _SHRegisterUserShellFolders function. This would generate the appropriate registry entries. With the current implementation those would all point to the user's home directory. In _SHGetDefaultValue, you could check for 'My Music', 'My Videos' and 'My Pictures' folders in $HOME and, if they are present, map to those instead.
Bye,