[linux] Zdoom doesn't save screenshots in ~/.zdoom +Request

[Macil]

In the linux version of zdoom, if you take a screenshot, it will save it in zdoom's program directory, instead of the ~/.zdoom folder where the gamesaves and ini are kept. This is a problem if the game directory is write protected, or the current user doesn't have privileges to write to it, and just isn't consistent.


Edit: This is more of a request, but is relevant with the user's home folder-vs-program directory issue: The linux version of zdoom doesn't have support for a default ini file. (In windows, if zdoom doesn't find an .ini file for the current user, it makes a copy based off of 'zdoom.ini'.) I propose that if zdoom doesn't find a ~/.zdoom/zdoom.ini file, it reads in the $PROGDIR/zdoom.ini file first and uses defaults based off of that.

[randi]

I propose that if zdoom doesn't find a ~/.zdoom/zdoom.ini file, it reads in the $PROGDIR/zdoom.ini file first and uses defaults based off of that.

You do realize this goes totally against established Unix policy that says the only thing that belongs in the program directory is the program itself and none of its data files, right? Trying to put screenshots in there is definitely not appropriate, but neither is reading a config file appropriate. $PREFIX/share/zdoom/zdoom.ini or something like that would probably be more correct.

What's more, that the Windows version can read zdoom.ini was never intended as a feature but is just backwards-compatibility from a time when every user shared the same configuration file. This was never the case with the Linux version, which always used a separate config for separate users.

[Macil]

Ok, that sounds better, I haven't been using linux too long.

[randi]

Screenshots are now saved by default in ~/.zdoom/screenshots.