Layers or layers?

[Aart K.]

The foldername layers, must that be Layers with a uppercase L or a l as lowercase?

Same question for the foldername UserIcons. Two uppercases? Or Usericons with one uppercase or usericons without any uppercase?

Or does it make no sense how you do it?

Aart
from the Netherlands

[petter5]

Under windows, upper-case or lover case does not matter. Under Linux, UserIconns will be different than usericons. as a thumb rule always stick to lover case when naming files and folders, that might avoid incomparability and confusions

Originally Posted by Aart K.

The foldername layers, must that be Layers with a uppercase L or a l as lowercase?

Same question for the foldername UserIcons. Two uppercases? Or Usericons with one uppercase or usericons without any uppercase?

Or does it make no sense how you do it?

Aart
from the Netherlands

[CarCode]

Best choice to take always the name as it is hard coded in the sources.
Often it doesn't matter but in some operating systems as petter5 wrote above already it matters. Not only Unix but also macOS allows to format a drive with HFS+ case-sensitive filesystem.
Layers is coded as "layers" and UserIcons is coded as "UserIcons" in the OpenCPN code. It is up to the developer to inform the users however.

Gerhard

[cagney]

The directory for user-defined layers should be named "layers".
The directory for user-defined icons should be named "UserIcons".
These names, even though inconsistent, are recognized by O.

This is exactly the way it is described in the documentation.
In Windows you may get away with other versions of the words, as petter5 indicates, but it's a good idea to stick to the official naming accepted by O.

Thomas

[petter5]

Hmmm, it might be an idea to for the future to change the code and force all letters to lover case,,, just my 10 cents.

Originally Posted by cagney

The directory for user-defined layers should be named "layers".
The directory for user-defined icons should be named "UserIcons".
These names, even though inconsistent, are recognized by O.

This is exactly the way it is described in the documentation.
In Windows you may get away with other versions of the words, as petter5 indicates, but it's a good idea to stick to the official naming accepted by O.

Thomas

[spithost]

If the "translation" to lower-case (or upper.... ) isn't to hard to implement in OpenCPN, and then working with that "uniform" version within the program itself, it would make use of LaYeRs and uSeRiCoNs a lot easier for end-users :-)