"The fact that toolsUI looks for the file in a few known locations but does not do anything with it sounds like a bug to me." I did wonder about that. It's just a matter of adding one line of code to get that bit to use the file if present.

Also wondered why that bit of code looks for the ".unidata" directory subordinate to the working directory rather than start from System.getProperty ("user.home").

Originally posted by @rschmunk in #1475 (reply in thread)