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

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 05:47 +0200, Martin Ott wrote:
> 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.=20

You need to sync blist.xml, account.xml, and logs at a minimum. The
icons can probably be re-retrieved. However, since we track them in
blist.xml, we'd have to make sure we deal with the situation
appropriately when the files disappear.

But instead of syncing .gaim, you'd have to sync multiple directories.
This isn't hard if you're an rsync expert, but I don't want to add
complexity for non-experts.

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

> 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...

I don't think we really need a library to find "~/.cache". ;)

Richard