On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 19:44 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: > Hi, > > just to inform that I have submitted today on the Bugzilla a patch to > set GIMP's configuration inside the system's config directory, > delegating this to Glib's g_get_user_config_dir(). > I checked the exact code in Glib, so that I can affirm it will follow > XDG rules on any UNIX-like platform; and will go under the > LocalAppDataFolder under Windows. > > This should satisfy Bugs 166643, 171171 and 164075. > > Some people wanted to go further in XDG by separating pure conf (all > *rc files) from data (brushes, dynamics, fonts, etc.), and even cache > data, etc. Though it is an interesting idea, my patch does not do this > right now. Right now all will go under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (just as > before it used to all go under $HOME). > But this can be done in a further step towards XDG later. > > Also my patch does rely fully on g_get_user_config_dir(), which does > not differentiate any UNIX-like platform. Hence OSX will be following > XDG as well, though current code uses the user's LibraryDirectory, > which is likely different. Though I prefer to follow the XDG > recommendations, if OSX users absolutely desires to follow Apple's > habits, I perfectly understand, and this is easy to fix by making back > the same special-OSX behavior as before. > > I hope this patch will go in! Waiting for any feedback or anything > that needs to be changed before merging. :-) Thanks for the patch! I just gave feedback in bugzilla. Regards, --mitch _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
