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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009808 | Scribus | General | public | 2011-03-07 14:28 | 2016-12-05 20:21 |
| Reporter | ale | Assigned To | cbradney | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.5.0svn | ||||
| Target Version | 1.5.3 | Fixed in Version | 1.5.3.svn | ||
| Summary | 0009808: follow the XDG standard for the config files | ||||
| Description | can we use ~/.config/.scribus instead of ~/.scribus? "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used." http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html inkscape also switched... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/26633 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
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What is planned about FreeDesktop.org XDG basedir specification for Scribus? http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ |
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According to XDG Base directory specification, Scribus should not have its own folder anymore User data should go into $XDG_DATA_HOME (which default to ~/.local/share), user preferences should go into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which default to ~/.config) and cached data should go to $XDG_CACHE_HOME (which default to ~/.cache). More details at : http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders Full specification can be found at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ The Freedesktop.org XDG base directory specification have good de facto adoption. It has been adopted by: - GNOME ( https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders ) - GTK+ ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646631 ) - KDE ( http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy#Freedesktop.org_and_Standard_Directories ) - QT ( http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qsettings.html#setPath ) - XFCE ( http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/advanced in Files and Environment Variables ) - LXDE - Razor-qt - VLC ( https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1267 ) - GStreamer ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518597 ) - Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16976 ) - many more upstream applications - Ubuntu ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6557/ & http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/source/precise/libxdg-basedir ) - Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libxdg-basedir1 ) - Red Hat - Fedora - Suse - many more distributions I think that Scribus should use same locations than the vast majority of Desktop environment and applications. There are real advantages of following this specification : - a lot less cluttered $HOME - Make backups a lot more safer and easier. Backuping your $XDG_DATA_HOME along with your files is enough (or just excluding $XDG_CACHE_HOME) - A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and without any risk to loose informations). Even for the software itself could choose to reset $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed. - Avoid some strange bugs that happens because you had a old version of some configuration file - A lot more of flexibility and portability because no path are hardcoded. |
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will 1.6 support this? |
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Perhaps 0013248 can piggy back on this issue once it's implemented |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2011-03-07 14:28 | ale | New Issue | |
| 2012-12-05 17:43 | eheintzmann | Note Added: 0029327 | |
| 2012-12-31 17:03 | jghali | Product Version | 1.5.0 => 1.5.0svn |
| 2013-01-05 12:53 | eheintzmann | Note Added: 0029598 | |
| 2016-03-15 13:08 | Kunda | Patch | => No |
| 2016-03-15 13:08 | Kunda | Note Added: 0039178 | |
| 2016-03-15 13:08 | Kunda | Target Version | => 1.6 milestone |
| 2016-11-18 17:34 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0013248 |
| 2016-11-18 17:37 | Kunda | Note Added: 0042461 | |
| 2016-11-20 22:34 | cbradney | Assigned To | => cbradney |
| 2016-11-20 22:34 | cbradney | Status | new => resolved |
| 2016-11-20 22:34 | cbradney | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2016-11-20 22:34 | cbradney | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.3.svn |
| 2016-11-21 01:31 | Kunda | Target Version | 1.6 milestone => 1.5.3 |
| 2016-12-05 20:21 | cbradney | Status | resolved => closed |
