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Bug 518598 - Get rid of .xchat2 and follow fd.o specifications
Get rid of .xchat2 and follow fd.o specifications
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: xchat-gnome
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: xchat-gnome maintainers
xchat-gnome maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 546081 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 523057
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-25 12:04 UTC by Lionel Dricot
Modified: 2019-02-23 02:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Patch to use XDG_CONFIG_DIR (830 bytes, patch)
2013-01-03 03:49 UTC, Patrick Griffis (tingping) 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Lionel Dricot 2008-02-25 12:04:09 UTC 
Xchat-gnome shouldn't create a .xchat2 folder.

According to fd.o specification, it should put user preferences in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

Any user data should go to $XDG_DATA_HOME. I only see the list of used channels belonging to this folder.

Any cache stuffs should go to $XDG_CACHE_HOME

More infos : http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

The reason why I'm reporting this bug :
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2008-08-31 18:29:14 UTC 
*** Bug 546081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sebastian 2011-05-24 22:35:58 UTC 
Is this bug still present in the latest version of Xchat?
Comment 3 Sebastian 2012-02-16 20:30:35 UTC 
I confirm this bug is still present.
Comment 4 Eric Heintzmann 2012-11-30 15:57:20 UTC 
* ping
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-11-30 16:20:43 UTC 
A "ping" without addressing anybody and expressing what is wanted often isn't very successful.
Comment 6 Eric Heintzmann 2012-11-30 17:15:33 UTC 
What is it planned about FreeDesktop.org XDG Specification for xchat-gnome?
Comment 7 Patrick Griffis (tingping) 2013-01-03 03:49:13 UTC 
Created attachment 232604 [details] [review]
Patch to use XDG_CONFIG_DIR
Comment 8 Sebastian 2013-01-05 23:25:31 UTC 
Review of attachment 232604 [details] [review]:

I think this patch needs also some migration code to move existing configuration data to the new location. Otherwise the new version cannot find the existing profiles.
Comment 9 André Klapper 2019-02-23 02:51:11 UTC 
xchat-gnome is not under active development anymore.
Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/xchat-gnome/commits/master

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather reactivate the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.
You may want to switch to Hexchat (or another IRC client that suits you).