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Bug 573655 - gconf doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
gconf doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 518590
Product: GConf
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gconf
2.25.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Gconf Editor Maintainers
Gconf Editor Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-01 18:07 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2009-03-01 19:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description antistress 2009-03-01 18:07:46 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha and it seems that gconf places its configuration files in
/home/.gconf 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)


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Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2009-03-01 19:03:15 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 518590 ***