Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] paths to rhythmdb.xml and other files

[Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik bickeringleague net>]

Great! Is http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders fixed for
Rhythmbox, then?

Mats

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 19:55 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just committed some changes that affect the location of rhythmbox's
> user specific data files, most notably rhythmdb.xml and playlists.xml.
> These have moved from the old ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/ directory to the
> cross-desktop user data directory, which on unixy platforms is
> determined by the XDG Base Directory specification.  In short, you can
> now find these files under ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/.
> 
> No manual steps are required here.  Rhythmbox will move the files itself
> if required.  This does mean that any older versions of rhythmbox that
> you run will not be able to find the files, but we don't attempt to
> provide backwards compatibility in general, so this isn't really
> anything new.
> 
> If you have installed any plugins or icons under ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/,
> you can move these to ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/ if you enjoy complying with
> freedesktop specs.  Rhythmbox won't do this automatically, and the old path
> will continue to work indefinitely.
> 
> 
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