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Hello
While taking a stab at fixing the command line on Windows, I can also implement the XDG User Dirs specification, using relevant GLib functions. However, there is a slight problem with this: we currently look for user data (palettes, extensions, etc.) in the user's config directory, not in the data directory. The default user config directory on Unix is ~/.config, while the default user data directory is ~/.local/share.
Is it OK to look in .local/share? We can automatically create a README in the config directory on the first run that tells the user to move his datafiles to ~/.local/share/inkscape.
Regards, Krzysztof
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On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:50 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Is it OK to look in .local/share? We can automatically create a README in the config directory on the first run that tells the user to move his datafiles to ~/.local/share/inkscape.
I'm fine with it, but I'm not sure at this point in the release process if it's better to put it on a branch to merge after the release.
Also, while you're moving things around. I think that the crash recovery files should probably go in ~/.cache/inkscape so that they don't get backed up by backup utilities.
--Ted
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