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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Storing preferences correctly

Each platform defines a proper location for storing user configuration files as follows:

  • Linux and other X11 systems store configuration files in a location defined in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, which defaults to ~/.config if it's not defined.
  • macOS user config files are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/.
  • Windows user config files are stored in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local. Though if your environment uses Active Directory (AD) with roaming profiles, you might prefer to use %HOME%\AppData\Roaming instead.

To realize this in our application, we'll edit our Application object to pass the correct path into SettingsModel. Remember that our SettingsModel constructor takes a path keyword argument ...

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