Ticket #3417 (closed: duplicate)
Change MantidPlot config directory name to be something other than ISIS
| Reported by: | Stuart Campbell | Owned by: | Michael Reuter |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | Release 2.6 |
| Component: | MantidPlot | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | nick.draper@… | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Tester: | Alex Buts |
Description
We should change the config directory for MantidPlot from .config/ISIS to something more facility agnostic.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Stuart Campbell
- Status changed from accepted to verify
- Resolution set to fixed
In [13447]:
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by Russell Taylor
- Status changed from verify to reopened
- Resolution fixed deleted
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by Stuart Campbell
- Cc nick.draper@… added
- Status changed from reopened to accepted
- Keywords ReleaseNotes added
I think that it will be ok as long as we mention it in the release notes and tell people how to migrate their old preferences. Which is just renaming the directory.
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by Russell Taylor
I strongly disagree!
OK, it would be better if the directory was not called ISIS, but it is a hidden directory! We really shouldn't be bothering users with this kind of thing, even if we could assume they will read the release notes. And also, on Windows we'd be asking them to edit the registry.
A better solution would be to have this handled programatically, either in the MantidPlot code or the installers. Even then, the should be balanced against the time (=money) it would take.
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by Stuart Campbell
- Keywords ReleaseNotes removed
- Status changed from accepted to assigned
- Owner changed from Stuart Campbell to Nick Draper
I must strongly disagree back! :-)
Well, my experience on the beamlines helping users is that you often (well more often that you should) have to delete this directory to solve various issues that occur with MantidPlot.
Yes, ideally this should be handled by the installer or MantidPlot itself (as in rename the ISIS directory on startup) - I'll let our project manager decide... It's not that important but really does not help in trying to portray Mantid as not just an ISIS-centric software project.
comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Iteration 30 to Iteration 31
Bulk move of tickets to iteration 31 at the iteration 30 code freeze
comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Iteration 32 to Iteration 33
Moved to iteration 33 at iteration 32 code freeze
comment:10 Changed 8 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Release 2.1 to Release 2.2
Moved at end of release 2.1
comment:11 Changed 8 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Release 2.2 to Release 2.3
Moved at the end of release 2.2
comment:12 Changed 8 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Release 2.3 to Release 2.4
Moved to milestone 2.4
comment:14 Changed 7 years ago by Nick Draper
- Milestone changed from Release 2.5 to Release 2.6
comment:15 Changed 7 years ago by Michael Reuter
- Owner changed from Nick Draper to Michael Reuter
- Status changed from assigned to accepted
comment:16 Changed 7 years ago by Michael Reuter
- Status changed from accepted to verify
- Resolution set to duplicate
Closing this as a duplicate of #1579.
comment:17 Changed 7 years ago by Alex Buts
- Status changed from verify to verifying
- Tester set to Alex Buts
comment:18 Changed 7 years ago by Alex Buts
- Status changed from verifying to closed
it is duplicate indeed.
comment:19 Changed 5 years ago by Stuart Campbell
This ticket has been transferred to github issue 4264
