[cheese] Updated Help file



commit 2e33314be1aac8201ffbf9107686fffa4528261e
Author: Felix Kaser <f kaser gmx net>
Date:   Wed Jul 15 21:37:01 2009 +0200

    Updated Help file
    
    Updated especially the section about where cheese stores the media, copyright set to 2009 and added myself as author. This fixes GNOME Bug #588354.

 help/C/cheese.xml |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/cheese.xml b/help/C/cheese.xml
index 7672f67..9693b32 100644
--- a/help/C/cheese.xml
+++ b/help/C/cheese.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
       </para>
     </abstract>
     <copyright>
-      <year>2007,2008</year>
+      <year>2007,2008,2009</year>
       <holder>daniel g. siegel (dgsiegel gmail com)</holder>
       <holder>Jaap A. Haitsma (jaap haitsma org)</holder>
     </copyright>
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
         <surname>Haitsma</surname>
 	<email>jaap haitsma org</email>
       </author>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Felix</firstname>
+        <surname>Kaser</surname>
+	<email>f kaser gmx net</email>
+      </author>
 
 <!-- This is appropriate place for other contributors: translators,
       maintainers,  etc. Commented out by default.
@@ -122,6 +127,23 @@
           <para role="publisher">Jaap A. Haitsma</para>
         </revdescription>
       </revision>
+      
+      <revision>
+        <revnumber>0.4</revnumber>
+        <date>2009-07-15</date>
+        <revdescription>
+          <para role="author">Jaap A. Haitsma
+            <email>jaap haitsma org</email>
+          </para>
+          <para role="author">Joshua Henderson
+            <email>joshhendo gmail com</email>
+          </para>
+          <para role="author">Felix Kaser
+            <email>f kaser gmx net</email>
+          </para>
+          <para role="publisher">Jaap A. Haitsma</para>
+        </revdescription>
+      </revision>
 
     </revhistory>
 
@@ -471,13 +493,38 @@
   </section>
 
   <section id="faq-store">
-    <title>Where does &application; store my photos?</title>
+    <title>Where does &application; store my photos and videos?</title>
     <para>
-      Your photos are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. You can also save
-      them to an alternate location from within &app;. Please see
-      <xref linkend="saving"/> for
-      information on this.
+      &app; stores your Pictures in a folder called Webcam inside the
+      XDG-Directory set for Pictures (in most distributions its ~/Pictures/Webcam).
+      The same applies for Videos: ~/Videos/Webcam. XDG is a standard to
+      declare default folders in your system, you can find more information
+      about XDG <ulink url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html"; type="http">here</ulink>.
+    </para>  
+    
+    <para>
+      If the XDG-Path is not set on your System, cheese has a fallback solution: it
+      will store your both your pictures and your videos in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. This is the default
+      directory for your media if you have an older version of &application;.
+    </para>
+    
+    <para>
+      It's also possible to set the location where cheese stores the media yourself,
+      the settings are stored in GConf. To change the settings use <command>gconf-editor</command>
+      and select /apps/cheese in the tree on the left. Now you can set the <guilabel>video_path</guilabel> and
+      <guilabel>photo_path</guilabel> to a location you prefer.
     </para>
+    
+    <warning>
+      <para>Attention: leave this settings blank if you want &application; to use the default directories.</para>
+    </warning>
+    
+    <note>
+		  <para>
+		    You can also save your pictures to an alternate location from within &app;. Please see
+		    <xref linkend="saving"/> for information on this.
+		  </para>
+		</note>
   </section>
 
   <section id="faq-quickcam">



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