Bug 821566
| Summary: | Use XDG dirs instead of $HOME | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | jmccann |
| Component: | fedora-packager | Assignee: | Dennis Gilmore <dennis> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | cschalle, dennis, Heintzmann.Eric, rhbugs |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-01-10 17:24:49 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
jmccann
2012-05-15 00:16:58 UTC
What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for fedora-packager? 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/ According to XDG Base directory specification: 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 Fedora-packager 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. fedora-packager is not a desktop application, i have no plans to support this specification. .koji is inherited from koji itself and has nothing to do with fedora-packager. cureent versions of fedora-packger dont touch that at all. .fedora.cert .fedora-server-ca.cert .fedora-upload-ca.cert ar the locations where koji expects to find the user certificates. im closing this as not a bug |