[Lazarus] Where does Lazarus store/look for global settings/options?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb:

>> - Why is a Lazarus installation so different from the installation of
>> Windows applications, conforming to the Windows guidelines?
> 
> Why do you think that Lazarus doesn't conform to Windows guidelines?

Executable files should reside in the Programs directory (read-only), 
Data in the AppData and UserData directories. Settings should reside in 
the registry.

Not that I (personally) like that separation, but it will make sense to 
administrators.

> Can you show a concrete guideline it is breaking?

Good point - no, I can't just now, most MSDN entries address .NET.

> The only thing I see is that multiple versions share the same
> configuration file, but I don't know if this is against any guideline.
> 
> Maybe the default configuration directory should contain the lazarus
> version in it.

I'll try to figure out a viable solution, when I really start working 
with multiple Lazarus versions myself.

DoDi