[Lazarus] Lazarus shortcuts conflict with windows shortcuts

[Vincent Snijders]

2012/8/15 Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com>:
> On 15-8-2012 15:13, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>> Am 2012-08-15 13:57, schrieb Reinier Olislagers:
>>> On 15-8-2012 13:39, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>>>> 1.) "Somewhere" should have been "C:\Dokumente und
>>>> Einstellungen\<username>\Anwendungsdaten" and not "C:\Dokumente und
>>>> Einstellungen\<username>\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten" (that's
>>>> for scratch data only and is not save within our roaming profile at work
>>>> for example).

I would not say scratch data, but data that should confine to one computer.

>>> Do you have some Microsoft documentation link for that? If that location
>>> makes sense, I'd submit a patch so you (and the rest of us) don't get
>>> bitten by this again...
>>
>> I only found this in
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_profile :
> If you feel strongly about it, you might want to submit an issue in the
> bugtracker...
>

There are two reasons why local app data is used:
* That is what GetAppConfigDir in fpc returns
* It is used to store a lazarus executable with compiled packages, if
the current executable directory is not writable. Having +/- 150 MB
extra in my roaming profile doesn't help login time ...

Vincent