build_writable_path


Description:

[ Version ( since = "2.4" ) ]
public static string build_writable_path (string name)

Creates a search path as it is used in the gimprc file.

The path returned by build_writable_path is just the writable parts of the search path constructed by build_data_path.

Note that you cannot use this path directly with parse. As it is in the gimprc notation, you first need to expand and recode it using expand.

Parameters:

name

directory name (in UTF-8 encoding)

Returns:

a newly allocated string