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

[Alejandro Leiva <aleiva emergya es>]

Hi Steve,

        Copy and paste from Freedesktop.org specification [1]:

	$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user 
specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not 
set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

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

Cheers,

El 26/07/10 15:03, Steve Holmes escribió:
> 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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Alejandro Leiva