re: shell32: symlink user's profile shell folders to xdg well known directories [2/2] (try 3)
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
"Dan Kegel" dank@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.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
"Dan Kegel" dank@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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