Question about current Shell Folder registry settings...

[Markus G�mmel]

Hello,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ShellFolders has 
the following settings on a freshly installed system after first calling 
wine:

AppData                    c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\Application Data
Cookies                    c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\Cookies
Desktop                    z:\home\mgoemmel\Desktop
Favorites                    c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\Favorites
...
Personal                    z:\home\mgoemmel
...
StartMenu                c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\Start Menu

Can anybody tell me why "Desktop" is set to Z: instead of set to 
"c:\windows\profiles\mgoemmel\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?

Thanks for any answers and/or discussions...

Markus Goemmel
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[Michael Jung]

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,

[Markus G�mmel]

Hi Michael,
> 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.

So I will do...

Thanks for helping!

Markus