Home folder button

[sapofra]

@spycon69, @stefanocorsi, @gfon: during the last meeting (16/10/2019) I remember that we said to add a home folder button in the GUI for helping the user finding the dice keys folder, etc (and for me avoiding receiving emails :) ). I don't see it, is it "work in progress" for the next release?

@spycon69 in order not to bother everyone, it would be nice to have the meeting minutes to confirm what I remember, thank you!

[spycon69]

Issue has been already discussed and closed at #164
Is this a different thing ?
I am sorry but I have not kept mom's from this latest meeting

[sapofra]

No, this issue is not related to the console (#164).

This is about having somewhere a button to open this folder: C:\Users\sapofra.co2mpas because:
-it allows the user to find right away his/her home folder which is where they have, not only the dice keys, but also the input and outputs.
-since this functionality will be explained in the documentation, it helps avoiding receiving emails like "where is the dice.keys folder?".

[spycon69]

Ok since it will be explained in the documentation my suggestion is to avoid placing another button in the GUI. Maybe after collecting some feedback from users we re-consider but at the moment and since the release must be today we do not have the time. @ankostis what is your opinion on this ?

[sapofra]

@spycon69 since this functionality will be explained in the documentation it means that IF this functionality is going to be implemented, then I will explain it in the documentation.
I cannot explain a button that doesn't exist.

[spycon69]

I am afraid we do not have the time for this at the very last moment.

[ankostis]

I believe the home-folder button has been decided earlier, in #76.

To facilitate users, we can add a Windows start-menu item for the co2mpas conda-package pointing to that directory. @stefanocorsi what do you think?

[stefanocorsi]

That seems a good solution to me. Will we add it on the desktop as well or would it be too crowded?

[ankostis]

Juast the menu; it is not gonna be used that often too worth the shortcut.

[haphyp]

Hi,
Is this menu going to be present in this release? Do I have to add this in the DICE website, in the HELP page?
So that the user knows where to find the folder and link when getting the key from the DICE website?

Something like this:

2. Open the .co2mpas\DICE_Keys folder, which is usually in C:\Users"username". Paste your dice.co2mpas.keys in the folder.
   If you cannot see the .co2mpas\DICE_Keys folder, please enable the show "hidden items" feature on your Windows Operating System. There is also a Windows menu link called "Co2mpas user folder" that allows to open the .co2mpas\DICE_Keys folder.

[dimitriskomnos]

At the end what has been decided?
Will the windows menu link to the folder be added for today?

If yes, the description if fine, but probably we can reduce to:

Open the DICE_KEYS folder using the Windows menu link called "Co2mpas user folder". 
Paste your dice.co2mpas.keys in the folder.

If no, we can drop the last part of the description, because we have not this functionality.

Open the .co2mpas\DICE_Keys folder, which is usually in C:\Users"username". 
Paste your dice.co2mpas.keys in the folder.
If you cannot see the .co2mpas\DICE_Keys folder, please enable the show "hidden items" feature on your Windows Operating System.

[ankostis]

I believe the menu will work in todays EXE, and the 1st instructions Dimitrs gave is fine, but i would add in parenthesis the actual path, just in case.