GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 676061
Use XDG dirs instead of $HOME
Last modified: 2018-07-10 22:05:28 UTC
Currently uses ~/.reinteract. Would be nice to use the locations defined in the XDG Base Directory specification. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for reinteract? 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 Reinteract 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.
Reinteract is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes in early 2012: http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/reinteract/log/ Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.