Re: [Gaim-devel] [ gaim-Bugs-1636195 ] Make Gaim use freedesktop.org basedir specification

[Martin O. <pah...@gm...>]

On 1/31/07, Richard Laager <rl...@wi...> wrote:
>
> I don't like this. It makes it harder to synchronize ~/.gaim between
> computers (which is more of an issue for Gaim than many other
> applications). It also doesn't map well to our win32 port.


What else to sync besides user logs, accounts  and maybe the buddy list
(even among buddy-icons - haven't tried that so far by myself)?
They could at most get divided into two directories then: accounts as
config; buddy list (among buddy icons) and log as data.

Could Gaim have other than User specific config- and data files (as the
freedesktop.org classification states)??

By win32 it would be quite nice, if all freedesktop.org compatible software
could hold its config- and data files inside some [freedesktop-config] and
[freedesktop-data] directories respectively under the one
[application-data-of-user]. Even machine specific settings could find their
place somewhere under the "All Users" folder of windows (like for example
the start menu has).

In that case, certainly it would be better by the freedesktop.org itself to
consider suggesting some common library for all freedesktop.org compatible
software to reach those directories... This library could be done and
suggested by developers of Gaim even and inside the very GTK both Gimp and
Gaim are using. :-)


-- 
Martin
Slept too early today...