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Originally Posted by willus
There is no chosen "app folder" for k2pdfopt. In fact, I want users to be able to run it directly from their desktop, and I don't wish to clutter the desktop with a .ini file. Besides, this has its drawbacks--it doesn't create unique settings for individual users. The app is also not necessarily guaranteed to have write access to the folder it is running from. For these reasons and various others, I store settings in environment variables. I do not intend to change this in the near future. In any case, there are many, many applications (the majority, I would venture) for which re-installing Windows 7 loses all settings.
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I would agree but having said that this app folder approach is generally the approach used or for Unix they are usually stored in a file in the users home directory. This is one of the very few apps I have heard of that stores all of it settings in variables. It is not generally expected so I will add this to the wiki page to help users expect this behavior. It could be used to aid portability. How to you get these variables into the users environment in the first place?
Dale