Gimp.ConfigInterface.build_data_path
Description: Reference for Gimp.ConfigInterface.build_data_path

### Function

# Gimp ConfigInterfacebuild_data_path

since: 2.4

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    gimp_config_build_data_path (
      const gchar* name
    )

#### Description [src]

Creates a search path as it is used in the gimprc file. The path returned by `gimp_config_build_data_path()` includes a directory below the user’s gimp directory and one in the system-wide data directory.

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

Available since: 2.4

#### Parameters

`name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  Directory name (in UTF-8 encoding).

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

A newly allocated string.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.