Reorganize rednotebook directories, remove webkit and xbel folders

[pixel_juice]

I'm running version 1.1.4 on Windows 7 64-Bit. After install and opening for the first time, it creates the ".rednotebook" and "webkit" folders in "c:\Users\*username*\" and when closed it creates a .recently-used.xbel in this folder.

Can or shouldn't they be put in "c:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\RedNotebook" like other apps? Since Win7 doesn't respect the .file hidden attrib like Linux, they clutter up the user folder.

Thanks! Let me know if you need any other info.

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

indeed, that looks very helpful. Reorganization of the directories will
have to be postponed to version 1.2 or 1.3 however since it implies some
untrivial changes.

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Thanks for the report!

Concerning RedNotebook data: Are you sure "c:\Users\*username*\AppData\Roaming\RedNotebook" is the correct directory for the files? Can you give any pointers to "official" guidelines for saving data, configs, etc.?

Concerning the webkit folder: You may have to file a bug at the webkit bugtracker.

Concerning .recently-used.xbel: There's some info here: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8772. Apparently you need to add

gtk-recent-files-limit = 0
and/or
gtk-recent-files-max-age = 0

to your gtkrc file (found under RedNotebook/etc/gtkrc I think). Does that make any difference?

[pixel_juice (benjarvis)]

Thanks for replying so soon!

To be honest I'm not 100% sure where the official proper place to put app prefs and settings in Win 7 is. However all of the commercial software I have (Ableton Live, Adobe products, dBpoweramp) and many of the F/OSS apps (VLC, Deluge, Mozilla) store their profiles/settings under "c:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\<Appname>" (i.e. vlc puts them in "c:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\vlc"). I have come to expect to find them there, and I'm assuming (by the folder name) they get copied when a user logs on to another PC on a domain that uses "Roaming Profiles"

Is webkit creating that folder? I'm not sure I understand exactly.

Changing the gtkrc file didn't do anything. I tried each of the variable changes and both of them at once. No difference. Setting the file to hidden and read-only made it remain hidden for 1 instance of opening/closing, but returned (unhidden and read-enabled) after a 2nd instance of opening/closing.

I fear these may be upstream bugs. :(

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Am 05.05.2011 13:44, schrieb pixel_juice:
> Is webkit creating that folder? I'm not sure I understand exactly.
yes, I think that's the case. What is inside that folder?

[pixel_juice (benjarvis)]

There is one folder called: "icondatabase" and inside that is a file called "WebpageIcons.db".

BTW, I forgot to mention I love your program. I'm using Windows now and when I moved from Ubuntu and I missed Lifeograph. But when I found your app and I forgot all about Lifeograph. Thanks for all the hard work!

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Thanks, glad you like it :)

I opened a bug report for the webkit file at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60360 and asked about the gtk file at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305325.

Does someone know about a pythonic way to get the desired windows paths for the journal data ("c:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\RedNotebook") generically for the different Windows versions?

[pixel_juice (benjarvis)]

I did a little looking and it looks like you can use the environment variable "APPDATA" to store the .rednotebook folder in the appropriate appdata folder.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/626796/how-do-i-find-the-windows-common-application-data-folder-using-python

Maybe that will help.

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

One "dirty" solution to this problem might be to remove those created files when RedNotebook exits.