Locale directory not found

[David Caro]

When executing clicompanion it tries to locate the locale bin, but it fails to do so because it uses the source folder or the same dir as the clicompanion binary is placed, instead of using the PATH environment variable.

 11 if (os.path.exists ('/usr/share/clicompanion/')):
 12 BASEDIR = '/usr/share/clicompanion/'
 13 print "using locale in system"
 14 else:
 15 BASEDIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0])))
 16 print "using locale in source code folder"

I set it high because it will not start
$ clicompanion
using locale in source code folder
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/clicompanion", line 45, in <module>
    idioma = get_language()
  File "/usr/local/bin/clicompanion", line 37, in get_language
    traducidos = os.listdir(locale_dir)
OSError: [Errno 2] No existe el archivo o el directorio: '/usr/local/bin/locale'

$ which locale
/usr/bin/locale

[David Caro (dcaro)]

Sorry, it looks for the locales folder, not the binary,.

The problem is that it is installed in /usr/local/share/clicompanion instead of /usr/share/clicompanion, so it does not find the sources folder nor the system locales folder.

I propose two things:
 - Looking for the correct installed directory
 - Showing a nicer and clearer message when not finding the locales folder

David

[David Caro (dcaro)]

Maybe we should use the feedesktop standards for XDG_DATA_DIRS?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

It sounds ok for me.

David