PathManager - build 2178

Claus Ibsen wrote:

com.intellij.openapi.application.PathManager

PathManager.getPluginsPath()

returns the path to the user_home instead of IDEA_HOME\plugins.

user_home = C:\Documents and Settings\cib002\.IntelliJIdea\config\plugins


Is this deliberate? Or is it documented clearly in the opanapi documentation?

There's two plugins directories now. One for preinstalled plugins under IDEA_HOME\plugins as before. Downloaded plugins
go to %CONFIG%\plugins by default (configurable by idea.plugins.path property). This greatly eases an upgrade process
when switching between IDEA builds.

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Then this is probably responsible for the error dialogs that I get on restart (under Windows) after I have downloaded and installed new plugins.

Nick

PS. Please allow this to be set - I personally prefer everything to be in a single directory, and have the installer be smarter so that it can convert older settings. It makes things a lot easier for the EAP.

Nick

Yeps I hate the user_home folder. Especially since it it stored in the odd windows folder 'documents and settings'.

I prefer to have all my IDEA files/plugins in the plugins folder of IDEA.


/Claus

PS: Is there an API to get IDEA_HOME?

You guys have got to be kidding me. You would rather lose all your
plugins when you install a new build?

Claus Ibsen wrote:

>Yeps I hate the user_home folder. Especially since it it stored in the odd windows folder 'documents and settings'.
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>I prefer to have all my IDEA files/plugins in the plugins folder of IDEA.
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>/Claus
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>PS: Is there an API to get IDEA_HOME?

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>Yeps I hate the user_home folder. Especially since it it stored in the odd windows folder 'documents and settings'.
>
>I prefer to have all my IDEA files/plugins in the plugins folder of IDEA.
>

I think the user_home folder is the best thing since chocolate.

Why do you lose the settings when you install a new build? The installer doesnt delete settings, as far as I was aware.

Nick

Nick Pratt wrote:

Why do you lose the settings when you install a new build? The installer doesnt delete settings, as far as I was aware.

Nick

You don't loose settings, you loose the jar files because the installer
deletes the entire directory structure starting at the IDEA install
directory including the plugins directory.

I have been installing to a new location every time and copying my
plugins to the new plugins directory. This will save me that step.

Tim