filetypes.README: unprecise/incomplete path

[lpaulsen93]

The path to look for filetypes files mentioned in filetypes.README is /usr/share/geany. This is not correct for Ubuntu. Under Ubuntu the path is /usr/local/share/geany.

It should be considered to mention both pathes (or even more if known for other linux distributions). So I suggest to extend the text in the README file.

I did not check because I am not using Windows at home but is the README file the same for windows? It will also have a different path of course.

[frlan]

Maybe it should be replace by something like $PREFIX

[lpaulsen93]

What you mean? $PREFIX literally? Or would the makefile put in the corresponding path?

[b4n]

@LarsGit223 actually the location directly depends where Geany was installed, so it we want to have it perfectly right we should generate the file at build time.

[elextr]

@LarsGit223 by $PREFIX @frlan means the location geany is built to be installed into, which is why @b4n noted it has to be set at build time.

Well at build or install time, sed experts are welcome to make a pull request.

[eht16]

I'd vote rather for a more generic phrasing.
/usr/share should be right for most users as this is usually the path used by distro packages. /usr/local/share is the default if you compile from source yourself and do not specify an installation prefix, this is not the way most users do install Geany, I guess.
Those users who install Geany from source and use a custom prefix, probably know what they are doing and so also can mentally replace the provided default path in the documentation/README with that they used for ./configure.

In the documentation, we already have a few paragraphs about different config/resource file paths, see http://geany.org/manual/#configuration-file-paths. Maybe we could just refer to this part of the docs in the README?

Something like "$PREFIX" could rather increase confusion for users rather than solving it.