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Bug 573656 - gstreamer doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
gstreamer doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518597
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gstreamer (core)
0.10.22
Other All
: Normal minor
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-01 18:13 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2009-03-01 18:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description antistress 2009-03-01 18:13:23 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha and it seems that gstreamer places its
configuration files in
/home/.gstreamer-0.10 directory 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.

This is quite important since it's not possible to easily backup config
& data files if these files are not stored at the right place

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)


Steps to reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2009-03-01 18:50:06 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 518597 ***