From 671edc0f1b3a622611879f0e835cb1652c0dfbd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Dmitriev <ksee.zelgadis@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 09 2019 08:01:20 +0000
Subject: Allow to set custom directory for user settings via SYNFIG_USER_SETTINGS environment variable. Requested in #716.


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diff --git a/synfig-studio/src/synfigapp/main.cpp b/synfig-studio/src/synfigapp/main.cpp
index 9e89e4f..7db56d8 100644
--- a/synfig-studio/src/synfigapp/main.cpp
+++ b/synfig-studio/src/synfigapp/main.cpp
@@ -435,7 +435,10 @@ synfig::String
 synfigapp::Main::get_user_app_directory()
 {
 	String dir;
-	//! \todo do we need something like Glib::locale_from_utf8()?  (bug #1837445)
-	dir = Glib::get_home_dir()+ETL_DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR+SYNFIG_USER_APP_DIR;
+	if (char* synfig_user_settings_dir = getenv("SYNFIG_USER_SETTINGS")) {
+		dir =  Glib::locale_from_utf8(String(synfig_user_settings_dir));
+	} else {
+		dir = Glib::get_home_dir()+ETL_DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR+SYNFIG_USER_APP_DIR;
+	}
 	return dir;
 }