Supporting Base Dir Spec

[Brian J. Tarricone]

i'm all for this, but i thought it was decided that we were going to 
wait until 4.3, mainly because of issues with migrating old user data.

    -brian

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>Right, I don't think we've reach a conclusion on this, did we?
>
>IIRC, most people liked the idea of fully supporting the base dir spec. The
>xfce_resource_lookup functions provide all/most of what we need. Only the
>different modules need to be changed. 
>
>Just for completeness sake, here's how I think this should work: we use the
>directories defined by the spec with an xfce4 subdir and an additional
>program-specific subdir. For backward compatibility we also look for files in
>'legacy' dirs like .xfce4, .icons and .themes .
>
>* Writing files
>
>Configuration goes in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/<subdir>/, temporary storage is
>done in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/xfce4/<subdir>/.
>
>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config/ and $XDG_CACHE_HOME defaults to
>$HOME/.cache/.
>
>* Reading files
>
>For configuration we look in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xfce4/<subdir>,
>$HOME/.xfce4/<subdir> and any of $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS with xfce4/<subdir>
>appended. We also look in $sysconfdir/xfce4/.
>
>For data we look in $XDG_DATA_HOME/<basedir>/<subdir>/,
>$HOME/.<basedir>/<subdir>/ and any of $XDG_DATA_DIRS with <basedir>/<subdir>
>appened. <basedir> is 'xfce4', 'icons' or 'themes' however appropriate.
>
>
>With this scheme we don't even need to update the users' configuration
>location, because the old ones will be picked up as well.
>
>To me this sounds like a useful standerdisation and doesn't seem all that
>difficult to implement. I'm prepared to put some time into this.
>
>So, did I miss anything, are there any objections?
>
>	Jasper
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