0002865: Support XDG basedir specification

Notes
(0009028) eheintzmann (reporter) 2013-01-05 11:22	According to XDG Base directory specification: User data should go into $XDG_DATA_HOME (which default to ~/.local/share), user preferences should go into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which default to ~/.config) and cached data should go to $XDG_CACHE_HOME (which default to ~/.cache). More details at : http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders [^] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders [^] Full specification can be found at: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ [^] The Freedesktop.org XDG base directory specification have good de facto adoption. It has been adopted by: - GNOME ( https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders [^] ) - GTK+ ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646631 [^] ) - KDE ( http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy#Freedesktop.org_and_Standard_Directories [^] ) - QT ( http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qsettings.html#setPath [^] ) - XFCE ( http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/advanced [^] in Files and Environment Variables ) - LXDE - Razor-qt - VLC ( https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1267 [^] ) - GStreamer ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518597 [^] ) - Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16976 [^] ) - many more upstream applications - Ubuntu ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6557/ [^] & http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/source/precise/libxdg-basedir [^] ) - Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libxdg-basedir1 [^] ) - Red Hat - Fedora - Suse - many more distributions I think that Kdenlive should use same locations than the vast majority of Desktop environment and applications. There are real advantages of following this specification : - a lot less cluttered $HOME - Make backups a lot more safer and easier. Backuping your $XDG_DATA_HOME along with your files is enough (or just excluding $XDG_CACHE_HOME) - A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and without any risk to loose informations). Even for the software itself could choose to reset $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed. - Avoid some strange bugs that happens because you had a old version of some configuration file - A lot more of flexibility and portability because no path are hardcoded.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-12-09 10:33	eheintzmann	New Issue
2013-01-05 11:22	eheintzmann	Note Added: 0009028

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