Implement XDG Base Directory Specification

[Duncan Hawthorne]

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

Would it be possible to implement this?

The rationale of the specification is having a unified, predictable behavior across all free software applications, rather than having thousands of applications each of which go about things their own way.

Using this spec eases things such as backing up configuration, syncing configuration, deleting broken configuration. It also removes the clutter from the home directory, when it is all logically "config", so should be in a config folder.

By splitting up config, data and cache, it prevents backup procedures wasting time and space backing up pointless files.

[Steven Sheehy (steven-sheehy)]

It's possible, but a bit hard since the DC++ core actually determines the config path. Thus, we wouldn't be able to use glib's nice g_get_user_*_dir() functions. Our two choices are to modify the core to duplicate the functionality from those glib functions or to create a set config path function so we can set it from the GUI.

[Marcin Garski (mgarski)]

I've implemented this 4 months ago in Fedora's linuxdcpp package, zero bug reports. Probably it's not a perfect implementation but feel free to modify it :)

[Marcin Garski (mgarski)]

I've forget to mention it only implement default download location.

[qwertitis (qwertitis-deactivatedaccount)]

IMHO, this spec (xdg-base-dirs) is just too convoluted. User directory cleanliness, OK. But I really want to see some good arguments before I make a path lookup function to look for the *statically installed* files. I don't understand the motives behind this spec.

Garski: Thank you for providing your changes. You have implemented some support for xdg-user-dirs, not xdg-base-dir. I've filed a separate report for xdg-user-dirs. Bug 329805. You're patch unfortunately does exactly what Steven previously explained we cannot do. Some related changes are being done in the i18n branch, however, so things are moving.