Ticket #1093 (closed enhancement: moved)
Opened 2012-04-10T09:36:43-05:00
Last modified 2013-06-07T16:02:08-05:00
Store ImageJ user config in user space
| Reported by: | curtis | Owned by: | bdezonia |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | imagej2-unscheduled |
| Component: | Core | Version: | |
| Severity: | serious | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | #1344 |
Description
The ImageJ2 configuration should be stored in a single folder beneath the user's home directory, according to the conventions of the operating system:
- Windows: ${user.home}\Application Data\ImageJ
- Mac OS X: ${user.home}/Library/Preferences/ImageJ
- Linux: ${user.home}/.imagej
The ImageJ.cfg file should live there, as well as all persisted properties. At the moment, such properties are scattered around by te Java preferences API; e.g., on OS X:
- ${user.home}/Library/Preferences/imagej.*
- ${user.home}/.java/.userPrefs/imagej
Lastly, there should be user plugins and jars folders located in the same place, where additional plugins can be installed.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 2012-04-10T09:37:49-05:00 by curtis
comment:2 Changed 2012-05-14T11:13:48-05:00 by bdezonia
- Milestone changed from imagej-2.0.0-beta3 to imagej-2.0.0-beta4
comment:4 Changed 2012-08-03T11:02:52-05:00 by bdezonia
- Milestone changed from imagej-2.0.0-beta4 to imagej-2.0.0-beta5
comment:5 Changed 2013-02-28T15:08:32-06:00 by gharris
May want to consider this issue:
I've run into this problem a couple of times on Windows 7;
I get an error finding and saving IJPrefs...
Because IJPrefs is now put in the user's directory (rather than ImageJ's dir)
is seems that we've run into a "long outstanding bug in Java": http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4787931
There are situations where System.getProperty("user.home") gives the wrong directory, so I guess that Prefs#load() fails. It looks as though getting the user.home directory can reliably be gotten this way:
javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getDefaultDirectory();
(I also posted this to the ImageJ mailing list.)
comment:6 Changed 2013-06-07T16:02:08-05:00 by bdezonia
- Milestone changed from imagej2-b7-ndim-data to imagej2-unscheduled
comment:7 Changed 2014-09-02T17:13:36-05:00 by curtis
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to moved
Migrated to https://github.com/imagej/imagej/issues/101
For Mac OS X, I am not 100% certain it would be appropriate for user plugins to in ~/Library/Preferences/ImageJ, but I am not sure where a better location would be. Perhaps ~/.imagej, similar to Linux?