Bug#653622: bug 653622

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

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On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 11:22:07 +0800, TripleA Developers wrote:
> Could you guys explain this a little bit better for someone who is not
> very familiar with OS's and especially not familiar with Linux?
> Please be detailed and patient, and I will try to address the problem.

On Unix systems the user directory is called the “home directory”,
there, applications can place configuration files or other directories,
but the convention is to use dot files or directories.

On Unix any filename which starts with a dot will be automatically
hidden from normal directory listing (for example «.hidden-file»),
which is very convinient as those are not really generally interesting.
But they can be explicitly listed with some options on the command-line
or special buttons/switches on graphical applications.

So for triplea, the ideal on Unix (this includes GNU/Linux, Mac OS X,
etc.) would be to use $HOME/.triplea/ or better yet use the environment
variables defined in
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>
to see where to place those files and directories. Please give that
spec a look, it's not too long.

Any further question I'll be happy to clarify.

thanks,
guillem