How do I get the standard system / user paths in Qt?
What I really need is to get the location of the user's Downloads folder.
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A:
You can use QDir::homePath() to get a QString to the home directory of the current user's profile but I'm not sure that there is a "standard" download directory identified by the OS.
Arnold Spence
2010-08-26 04:31:04
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A:
There is QDesktopServices providing some user paths:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qdesktopservices.html#StandardLocation-enum
It has e.g. Desktop and Documents but no specific Downloads folder.
Frank
2010-08-26 08:31:33
+1 I knew there was something like that in Qt but my eyes weren't working last night.
Arnold Spence
2010-08-26 13:33:00