Bug 450338

Summary:	Adhere to freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruce Brackbill <brackbillbruce>
Component:	gnome-desktop	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bruce Brackbill 2008-06-06 18:56:48 UTC

Work towards Adhering to the XDG Base Directory Specification.

Problem:

The Gnome users $HOME directory is littered with dot files and directories.

Adhering to the XDG Base Directory Specification (
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ ) would clean up this mess.

Fedora works so closely with upstream that I'm quite surprised that during the
course of communication between the two parties there wasn't a: "By the way,
before we ( Fedora ) decide to package (
mozilla/evolution/pulseaudio/transmission/whichever), when you ( the upstream
packager ) write your rpm spec file, please adhere to the $HOME/.local/share and
$HOME/.config freedesktop.org as stated in the XDG Base Directory Specification,
thank you"

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-07-08 19:20:30 UTC

This needs to be handled upstream, and doesn't even seem like something related
to the gnome-desktop package.