I'm fine with the current setup: it makes things easy for the tons of builds I use. I have my saves in a custom directory, so I just copy paste User/GC and User/Config from my old build to the new build; and both builds use the same saves, I don't have to redo config options, and yet I still get all the updates like GameINI changes. Very awesome for testing. And it has the benefit of keeping sizes down (370MB of saves times 40 builds? OUCH).
And frankly, I don't like the idea of having it in My Documents. I HATE IT when programs demand to put a folder in there, it's messy. I'm not a big fan of it being in Appdata either, as I'm an organization freak and I much prefer to keep all of my Dolphin stuff in the Dolphin directory for easy moving and adjustment. I am definitely against this. I would only support the ability have a global user directory if I can set where that directory is.
I'm in with it if the User folder goes to Documents\Dolphin, but I completely disagree with the whole AppData idea... Yes, this is the default folder for app settings in Windows, however, in Dolphin's User folder we have much more than configs, there are also screenshots, texture packs, audio/video dumps, etc. And since the AppData is hidden by default all Windows versions (supported by Dolphin), this would make a lot harder for the end-user to install/extract texture packs or even access screenshots taken with Dolphin...
(07-31-2013, 09:10 AM)Jhonn Wrote: [ -> ]I'm in with it if the User folder goes to Documents\Dolphin, but I completely disagree with the whole AppData idea... Yes, this is the default folder for app settings in Windows, however, in Dolphin's User folder we have much more than configs, there are also screenshots, texture packs, audio/video dumps, etc. And since the AppData is hidden by default all Windows versions (supported by Dolphin), this would make a lot harder for the end-user to install/extract texture packs or even access screenshots taken with Dolphin...
This is also the reason I was against putting the User folder in AppData. Thank you for elaborating.
(07-31-2013, 09:10 AM)Jhonn Wrote: [ -> ]I'm in with it if the User folder goes to Documents\Dolphin, but I completely disagree with the whole AppData idea... Yes, this is the default folder for app settings in Windows, however, in Dolphin's User folder we have much more than configs, there are also screenshots, texture packs, audio/video dumps, etc. And since the AppData is hidden by default all Windows versions (supported by Dolphin), this would make a lot harder for the end-user to install/extract texture packs or even access screenshots taken with Dolphin...
We could always split things up. Texture packs, and save files in My Documents/my games/Dolphin, settings in Appdata, videos in My Videos/Dolphin, etc.
We could also put a shortcut to open the folder in dolphin or something.
Am I the only one who has next to zero use for my documents folder?
I have idk 100-200 files, >=10gb of stuff in the downloads folder. I live on the web, you could say.
I also have a separate C:\Users\jimbo1qaz\applications folder where I put dolphin and other extracted complete apps, not random scripts I'll use once. I put stuff like winwarden, etc there.
I don't really like the idea of using the My Documents folder. Maybe make it optional. Why do you need it? Syncing data across revisions?
Can you do something like Dolphin_EXE_folder\..\user_data or something? Not sure if it's a good idea... Multiple exes in one folder, sharing the same data? No, that might result in conflicting plugin folder names.
Quote:Why do you need it? Syncing data across revisions?
Yes.
For. I've been hoping for this change for a very long time, i also don't see what the argument is about, people against this can just use the .txt file, also i'm for the My Documents, the only solution for people complaining about users not being able to get to folders like screenshot if moved to Appdata would be to separate them, separating them imo is sloppy (OCD on folder organization), instead of separating them i'd rather we just continue the way we are.
Quote:i also don't see what the argument is about, people against this can just use the .txt file
I don't see what the argument is about, people who want this can just create a symlink.
(07-31-2013, 08:29 PM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:i also don't see what the argument is about, people against this can just use the .txt file
I don't see what the argument is about, people who want this can just create a symlink.
The problem is your average Dolphin user has no clue what a symlink is, what it does, or how to go about making one on Windows. Adding this info to the FAQ would make that point moot however.