Get rid of .hplip folder and follow fd.o specifications

[Lionel Dricot]

There should not be an .hplip folder in $HOME.

According to Freedesktop specification it should be put in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (if removing this folder will impact the user) or in $XDG_CACHE_HOME (if it's there only for performance reason).

Personnally, I don't see any difference if I plug my printer after removing this folder so I suggest that it should be put in $XDG_CACHE_HOME..

If this folder exist to permit some manual tweaks, then it should be put in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but should not be created automatically.

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

The reason why I'm reporting this bug :
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This is an upstream problem. Upstream task added.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The fd.o standard is described here:

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Lionel,
Thank you for submitting this feature/enhancement request for the hplip package. You made this request quite some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Do you think this feature/enhancement is still needed or can we close this bug report?

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G
[Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager]

[gueux (gueux)]

I do think it would still be a nice thing to have. So, to me, this bug report should not be closed.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Gueux. I will change it back to confirmed.
Have a great day!
:)
G

[Thaodan (theodorstormgrade)]

See QStandardpaths for a hint how to implement this

[Avamander (avamander)]

Unfortunately this is still a minor problem. It would be nice to not have hplip clutter people's home directories.