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Bug 522851 - Seahorse doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Seahorse doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: seahorse
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: 2.22.0
Assigned To: Seahorse Maintainer
Seahorse Maintainer
Depends on:
Blocks: 523057
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-16 22:59 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2008-07-31 02:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description antistress 2008-03-16 22:59:39 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
its seems that Seahorse in GNOME 2.22 (Ubuntu Hardy alpha 6) places its configuration file
in ~/.gnome2/ which doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs :

The default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config, the default for
$XDG_DATA_HOME is $HOME/.local/share. So all applications should look for those
environment variables and use those default values if the variables are not
set.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec
See also
- http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data
(main post and comment#8)
- http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/



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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Adam Schreiber 2008-07-31 02:45:19 UTC 
I think this is no longer a problem since we have removed dependence on deprecated libraries.  I had such a file and deleted it.  I started seahorse and it failed to reappear.  I switched to a clean user account and it lacked the file.  Nothing in the file before I deleted it had anything specific to seahorse.  We use gconf to store all of our settings.