inconsistent paths returned for windows builds

[looo]

I guess this is the root of the problem we encounter with the conda-windows builds which do not show images in the StartPage.
see here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 50#p260478

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>>> FreeCAD.getHomePath()
'C:/Users/katja/Miniconda3/envs/freecad/Library/'
>>> FreeCAD.getResourceDir()
'C:/Users/katja/Miniconda3/envs/freecad/Library/data/'
>>> FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir()
'C:\\Users\\katja\\AppData\\Roaming\\FreeCAD\\'
>>> FreeCAD.getUserMacroDir()
'C:\\Users\\katja\\AppData\\Roaming\\FreeCAD\\Macro/'

os.path.join will work different for these paths:

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>>> os.path.join(FreeCAD.getHomePath(), "test")
'C:/Users/katja/Miniconda3/envs/freecad/Library/test'
>>> os.path.join(FreeCAD.getResourceDir(), "test")
'C:/Users/katja/Miniconda3/envs/freecad/Library/data/test'
>>> os.path.join(FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir(), "test")
'C:\\Users\\katja\\AppData\\Roaming\\FreeCAD\\test'
>>> os.path.join(FreeCAD.getUserMacroDir(), "test")
'C:\\Users\\katja\\AppData\\Roaming\\FreeCAD\\Macro/test'

So it seems only FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir() works correctly. The others seems to have either mixed separators or unix separators, which do not work on windows. os.path.join seems to look at the ending separator and slects either windows or unix style. So I guess these function should all return windows paths for windows builds. Any ideas why separators are mixed here?

[looo]

Another way to fix the paths in the html-file is to write a "file:///" in front of the paths. At least this worked in the browser.

[looo]

@wmayer any idea where to fix this?

[yorik]

Normally by passing a path to python's os module we should be able to get rid of this problem, as it can take any combination of \ and /.
For the startpage, there are likely several problems there:

- "hard-coded" icons(the icons in the "help" tab), that is, their path is something like userappdata/path/to/icons
- icons created on the fly and stored in the temp directory (basically all the file/mime icons). python os.mkdtemp is what is used to create these temp files.
- the URLs that are called when you click on a file. These urls are relative (ex. just "LoadMRU.py"), so normally they should just work, independently of where they are, there is no C: or D: path there