use XDG base directories instead of HOME

[William Jon McCann]

Stores information in ~/.shutter. It would be better to use the locations defined in the XDG Base Directory Specification.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Thanks for the hint.

[Eric Heintzmann (heintzmann-eric)]

What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for Shutter?

http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

[J G Miller (jgmiller)]

Recently release v0.94 still uses "$ENV{HOME}/.shutter/" instead of testing to see if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME directories exist, and then, if they do exist or can be successfully created, to use parameters SHUTTER_CONFIG_HOME = $ENV{XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/shutter" and SHUTTER_DATA_HOME = $ENV{XDG_DATA_HOME}/shutter" instead of all the needless repeated invocations of ENV for setting up each of the user files (accounts, session, settings etc).

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

Patches are very welcome! :)