Description of problem: pulseaudio uses ~/.pulse-cookie ~/.pulse for configuration and runtime files instead of using XDG compliant directories, e.g. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Right now, my ~/.pulse directory has the following files: 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-card-database.tdb 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-default-sink 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-default-source 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-device-volumes.tdb 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-runtime 169a823173e73b576317c3110000000c-stream-volumes.tdb equalizerrc equalizerrc.availablepresets presets Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-1.1-9.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use pulseaudio 2. ls -l ~/.pulse Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I'd prefer poking upstream to get this implemented (I'm certainly not going to hack fedora's packages downstream to achieve this).
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It's still happening in Fedora 18 - pulseaudio-2.1-7.fc18.x86_64. I'm all for reporting this upstream.
implemented in pulseaudio-4.0 (at least)