Re: External Dep Proposal for 2.20: xdg-user-dirs

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/5/07, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:
> In the past months Alexander Larsson worked on a freedesktop.org "spec"
> and tool to <quote>manage well known user directories like the desktop
> folder and the music folder</quote>.
>
> You can find all needed info on this webpage [1] and in xdg mailing list
> archives.
>
> Now, some GNOME modules are using this tool, when available. Grepping my
> changelogs I found:
>
>       * totem: use xdg-user-dirs to add some default directories to the
>         "Open" dialogues (2007-03-26)
>       * epiphany: use xdg-user-dirs to get a better default Downloads
>         directory (2007-04-23)
>       * sound-juicer: use xdg-user-dirs to set a nice default target for
>         encoded files (2007-03-26)
>       * evince:  use the xdg-user-dirs DOCUMENTS folder as default
>         folder when opening a file chooser (2007-04-02)
>       * gnome-screensaver: use XDG user dirs to find pictures directory
>         (2007-04-23)
>
> Patches for Nautilus (desktop and templates directories) and Panel
> (desktop directory) are ready (and available in Fedora SRPMs).

There is also a patch for the GTK+ filechooser, currently only in the Fedora
rpm, and a bunch more application patches, which we'll hopefully get into
upstream bugzilla/svn soon.