added a warning if quassel is unable to create it's data directory

[quassel.git] / src / common / util.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/util.cpp b/src/common/util.cpp
index e47882a..5aa21ef 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/util.cpp
+++ b/src/common/util.cpp
@@ -138,3 +138,21 @@ QByteArray methodName(const QMetaMethod &method) {
   QByteArray sig(method.signature());
   return sig.left(sig.indexOf("("));
 }
+
+QDir quasselDir() {
+  // kinda ugly, but I currently see no other way to do that
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN32
+  QString quasselDir = QDir::homePath() + qgetenv("APPDATA") + "/quassel/";
+#else
+  QString quasselDir = QDir::homePath() + "/.quassel/";
+#endif
+
+  QDir qDir(quasselDir);
+  if(!qDir.exists(quasselDir)) {
+    if(!qDir.mkpath(quasselDir)) {
+      qCritical() << "Unable to create Quassel data directory:" << qPrintable(qDir.absolutePath());
+    }
+  }
+
+  return qDir;
+}