On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle@t-systems.com wrote:
Hi,
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19028
winecfg on Mac OSX (10.5.6 and .7) does not link "My Videos" etc. to the equivalent directories on the Mac. Everything is linked to $HOME (or was it Desktop/?) instead. What a pity!
Mac OSX uses directories named Documents/, Pictures/, Videos/, Music/ -- even in the German locale. The Finder GUI provides localized names. Unlike XDG/Gnome there are no crazy hacks at session begin to rename directories based on the session's locale. I don't know how earlier releases of Mac OSX behave, i.e. whether these directories have always been present. Does anyone know a reference?
I located the relevant places that would need a patch: dlls/shell32/shellpath.c:_SHCreateSymbolicLinks and possibly dlls/shell32/xdg.c:XDG_UserDirLookup
However, some design issues are unclear to me, hence prevent me from writing a patch:
- In what order to add the Mac check?
- When to check for a folder named "My Documents" (MS-Windows non-localized
name in English locale, possibly translated), and when for "Documents" (MacOS constant name)?
- Use XDG on the Mac or not? (if linked in, e.g. possibly when compiled via
MacPorts, which pulls in a zillion libraries. Apple does not provide libfreedesktop.)
Thanks for your comments, Jörg Höhle
You probably want a separate code path in shellpath.c for the Mac. I don't think XDG works there.