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Bug 710526 - Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME for save user's configuration and data
Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME for save user's configuration and data
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166643
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.8.6
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-19 19:59 UTC by Sylvhem
Modified: 2013-10-19 20:17 UTC
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Description Sylvhem 2013-10-19 19:59:21 UTC 
The GIMP 2.8.6 for Linux saves the data and configuration of the user inside ~/.mozilla/.gimp-2.8.
I think the GIMP should follow the proposal of freedesktop.org (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) and store personal configuration in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (default to ~/.config) and personal data in $XDG_DATA_HOME (default to ~/.local/share). Concretely, according to this specification, the data of the user should be in ~/.local/share/gimp-X.Y and its configuration in ~/.config/gimp-X.Y.
This way has some advantages. First, it avoids that $HOME are cluttered by lots of configuration files and directories. Moreover, group together all configuration and data files, permits to the user to copy its complete configuration easily.
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2013-10-19 20:17:02 UTC 
GIMP doesn't put anything into ~/.mozilla, also, this bug is a duplicate,
and it's fixed in master.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 166643 ***