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Bug 518724 - Get rid of .serpentine and follow fd.o specifications
Get rid of .serpentine and follow fd.o specifications
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: serpentine
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Serpentine Maint
Serpentine Maint
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks: 523057
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-25 22:48 UTC by Lionel Dricot
Modified: 2014-09-01 09:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Lionel Dricot 2008-02-25 22:48:53 UTC 
Serpentine shouldn't create a .serpentine folder.

According to fd.o specification, it should put user preferences in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

Any user data should go to $XDG_DATA_HOME. I only see the list of used channels
belonging to this folder.

Any cache 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
Comment 1 Tiago Cogumbreiro 2008-03-18 10:30:36 UTC 
I don't have much time.

If someone could step forward with a patch, this would get fixed sooner.
Comment 2 Lionel Dricot 2009-07-17 19:19:32 UTC 
Hello Tiago,

I don't know if Serpentine is still active. If yes, could you give me the DVCS command to branch it ? I will make you the patch.
Comment 3 Tiago Cogumbreiro 2009-07-17 19:42:13 UTC 
I will contact you via email, OK?
Comment 4 Lionel Dricot 2009-07-23 13:07:21 UTC 
a merge has been proposed without migration heuristic. I believe it doesn't worth the hassle.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2014-09-01 09:59:21 UTC 
Serpentine maintainer(s) have not worked on Serpentine for some years now. This project is not under active development anymore. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone
takes the responsibility for active development again.