No way to manually set path to Zim executable

Bug #615472 reported by Michael Mulqueen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Zim Capture
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

There is currently no way to manually set the path to the Zim executable.

This is problematic in certain circumstances:
* Testing -- I test against the Zim trunk as well as the latest release, but the Zim trunk lives in my home directory (which is not on the PATH list)
* Odd configurations -- if for some reason Zim Capture can't find the executable, there is currently no way to override it as a fix
* Windows -- the executable locator in Zim Capture for Windows is primitive, so if it's not in C:\Program Files\ then Zim won't be found, manually setting the path could be a fix until I get round to a proper locator for Windows
* Mac OS X -- there is currently no OS X support, but this could be worked around if the path to the executable could be set manually

Fix: I'll probably set up a variable in about:config and if that isn't null then that will override any auto-detection. Eventually, I will be adding a preferences dialogue box.

Changed in zimcapture:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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