Re: [orca-list] Changed the user's preference directory

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Just where is this SDG-DATA-HOME/ directory supposed to be located.  I
assume this name you gave is an environment variable of somekind? That
is not found in my environment at this time.  I have no SDG anything
in my home directory.  So can someone enlighten me further on this?
If I migrate the orca data, where will it actually go?  I guess I
could experiment but sure don't wanna lose it nor be unable to verify
its contents wherever it is.

Thanks for the help.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:36:47AM +0200, Juanje Ojeda wrote:
> Hi :-)
>
> I've just pushed two patches[1][2] to the master in order to fix this bug:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596108
>
> The bug is about to use XDG locations for storing configuration files.
> XDG locations are the Freedesktop.org ones:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
>
> This is important because two reasons:
>  * This is a goal for GNOME to have moved all the user's configs to
> XDG locations[3]
>  * It's crossdesktop solution
>
> We know there is people here using the Orca master's version and the
> one from their distro and to move their ~/.orca to XDG-DATA-HOME/orca
> could be a problem because the one from the distro won't know anything
> about this new location.
> That's why right now the migration is optional. Let's see with some user cases:
>  * New user install the version from master. He/she hasn't run Orca
> before so hasn't got any configs stored at ~/.orca.
> When the user run Orca the first time, it will create the
> configuration files at XDG-DATA-HOME/orca
>  * Betatester is using the version from his/her distro but also is
> testing the last version from master. To be able to switch from one to
> another version keeping the configs, the config directory must be
> ~/.orca. The one that understand both versions.
> By default, the new code from master won't change anything, so this
> case is safe.
>  * User want to have the last version from the master and just that
> version. The new code has a new command line option for migrating the
> config files ('-m, --migrate-config').
> If the user pass this option the ~/.orca directory will be moved to
> XDG-DATA-HOME/orca.
>
> The idea is to change the default behavior just before the release,
> when the betatesters won't need so much to main both versions. Then
> the migrate option will be deleted and the default behaviour will be
> to use XDG-DATA-HOME and if ~/.orca exists, this will me moved to the
> new location.
>
> I'm not sure if I've explain myself well but the lasts comments at the
> bug maybe can clarify it. I think Joanmarie can explain better things
> than me :-)
>
> Cheers :-)
>
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=759c61df50e61c92c274cf5a9461945bd267d54b
> [2] http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=49af893c1894821ef0f868aebf75e42c716db8ef
> [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
> -- 
> Juanje
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