GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 518587
Get rid of .nautilus and follow fd.o specifications
Last modified: 2010-05-06 22:41:02 UTC
Nautilus shouldn't create a .nautilus folder. According to fd.o specification, it should put user preferences in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Any user date should go to $XDG_DATA_HOME (I don't think it affects Nautilus). Any cached 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
Can we also get a link or brief description about what nautilus's session data is used for please?
Does Nautilus handle thumbnailing itself or is there another program responsible for that? The ~/.thumbnails directory probably needs to be migrated to $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails. If that's not Nautilus's responsibility then I'll file another bug for it :-)
The thumbnails are created by libgnomeui.
*** Bug 522844 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming, let's try to do this for 2.24.
Is this still planned for 2.24? Does migration code exist? What happens if a user runs 2.24 and then switches back to 2.22, will he lose his settings? I'd prefer to reflect on this and have this for 2.26 instead. Also see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders .
with GNOME pre2.26 i still have a .nautilus folder (with a metafiles folder inside) in my home folder any plan to solve this bug to comply the freedeskltop spec and clean up the home folder ? brasero, gtk-2.0 (gtkfilechooser.ini) totem trash etc. have already made the move
This will need to be done for 2.28.
Just adding that there is not only ~/.nautilus, but also ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts and ~/.gnome2/accels/nautilus which need to be axed.
This has already been done in bug #601476. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 601476 ***