[enhancement] Location for Settings and Functions about shutter-encoder HOT 12 CLOSED

Currently I have a problem, because the app need to know where the settings.xml is located if I add the ability to change the location of it, I need to write into an other file where the settings.xml file is. On Windows I could you use the registry but I don't know how to handle this on Mac & Linux.

The other problem is the users rights, if I allow to save the settings.xml into the app folder it could be refused to write into. That's why I use the "\Documents" folder. Also on Linux the .AppImage is read only which is a real problem.

So I would like to allow the user to change the settings.xml location but currently I'm stuck.

If someone has any idea I'm curious to know.

On Linux, you can set it to $HOME/.config/shutter-encoder or something similar into this .config folder.

I'm Brazilian and already have $HOME/Documentos for my documents folder, it's very bothering to have this folder duplicated with the name in another language.

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Someone also request me this option, just curious why you need to change it? and where?

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I have a folder within Documents called 'Software' (there are others for unrelated things); this is where I keep such settings.

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Ok great, i will add this.

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windows v15.3
I use the portable version.
Here, saving the configuration and functions in the program directory would be a better choice.

Suggestion:
3 options:

• 1. default (c:\Users...\Documents\Shutter Encoder).
• 2. using portable directory (if portable version)
• 3. own selection of the directory

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Currently I have a problem, because the app need to know where the settings.xml is located if I add the ability to change the location of it, I need to write into an other file where the settings.xml file is.
On Windows I could you use the registry but I don't know how to handle this on Mac & Linux.

The other problem is the users rights, if I allow to save the settings.xml into the app folder it could be refused to write into. That's why I use the "\Documents" folder. Also on Linux the .AppImage is read only which is a real problem.

So I would like to allow the user to change the settings.xml location but currently I'm stuck.

If someone has any idea I'm curious to know.

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Continuing with this issue, some time ago I wrote about same issue in openSUSE. SE creates a "Documents" folder, but my local language is Spanish. I wrote to Paul about if I guess something more about this question, I'll tell him about it, and this is what I can contribute about this issue:
The file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs contains all XDG folders name and their local language equivalent, like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"

So XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR in openSUSE contains the right folder name to store SE setting, in this way:
<XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR>/.config/shutter-encoder where <> must be the value assigned in mentioned file.

I wish it could help yet to fix the folder settings issue.

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Is there a fix for the AppImage version yet? It's kind of annoying for users with non-English locales as it creates the Documents folder every time.

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I can't help more about. I put exactly the file and environment variables that ShutterEncoder should inspect to solve this issue. Several months passed but is like my post was ignored :(

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I'm sorry Paul, but bad news: I tried "Shutter Encoder 17.0 Linux 64bits.AppImage" and it continues creating "Documents/Shutter Encoder ..." folder.

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It will be for the next release.

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Perfect then!! I'm willing to delete that weird folder from my system that I thought enhancement was integrated in last published version.

THANK YOU for your work, I'm sure it's very difficult to have a multiplatform application running fine in all operating systems.

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