372246 - [Mac] XULRunner profile dir misses vendor name

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduction:
1. Create application.ini with
  [App]
  ; This field specifies your organization's name.  This field is recommended,
  ; but optional.
  Vendor=TomTom
  ; This field specifies your application's name.  This field is required.
  Name=HOME
2. Start on Windows, Linux and Mac and look at profile location

Actual result:
Mac: Just .../Application Support/HOME/Profiles/.... This makes no sense whatsoever to the user.
Linux and Windows as expected.

* Windows: Windows user profile\AppData\TomTom\HOME\feiguikjsb.default\
* Linux: /home/username/.tomtom/home/feiguikjsb.default/
* Mac: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/HOME/Profiles/feiguikjsb.default 

Expected result:
Mac: Vendor included somewhere, e.g.
* .../Application Support/TomTom HOME/Profiles/...
* .../Application Support/TomTom/HOME/Profiles/...

Importance:
This is a real app, it really is called "TomTom HOME". No, I don't want ...\TomTom\TomTom HOME\ on Windows.

Related: bug 365023.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I believe that this is intentional and certainly seems to line up with how other apps place their preferences on Mac.

See http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/xre/nsXREDirProvider.cpp#866

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Indeed, it is intentional. Though if you're interested in adding an directory name override setting to application.ini, I'd consider taking it.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

How about UniqueName, which will default to AppName and be used in places where the Vendor will not be used? That seems to be the core problem here: "Firefox" and "Adium" are unique and expressive, but "HOME" is not, it's only unique and expressive with the vendor name. There are a lot of apps in both classes. There are also a lot of instances - not just the profile - where you want to use only "Firefox", not "Mozilla Firefox", but you do want to use "TomTom HOME", not just "HOME".

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Indeed, it is intentional. Though if you're interested in adding an directory
> name override setting to application.ini, I'd consider taking it.

Presumably this would be something along the lines of:

ProfileFolder=TomTom HOME

And then exactly that folder name (or entire path if it contains /'s) would appear under Application Data/Application Support/~ depending on platform

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

More specifically "MacProfileFolder=TomTom HOME" since Windows/Unix already use the Vendor/Appname. Thunderbird may be going to need something like this also.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

bsmedberg, I was proposing UniqueName, because there are probably many places where you use AppName where I want "TomTom HOME". They should all be changed to UniqueName (when I trip over them :) ), not just the profile.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I am not prepared to add a general setting at this point to solve a specific case.

Comment 8

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Fixed by bug 396209