xdg user directory patches for xfce 4.4.2

[Christian Dywan]

Am Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:40:34 +0200
schrieb Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:

> Hey,
> 
> Am Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:22:50 +0200
> schrieb Andrea Santilli <yawara at quipo.it>:
> 
> > hello all,
> > I was running xfce 4.4.2 on Fedora 9 when I noticed that it did not
> > recognize the xdg user directories. I found this quite annoying so I
> > filed a bug report to bugzilla
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457740) 
> > The guy there pointed me out that this features is probably going to
> > be included in version 4.6.x and that there were no planes to
> > backport it to the 4.4.x branch.
> > Hence I submitted 3 patches to force xfce recognize such
> > directories. Please could you developers point me out whether those
> > patches are correct enough and the eventual details I forgot?
> > I'm attaching those patches to this email too.
> > Thank you in advance.
> > A. Santilli
> 
> the main problem I see is your use of g_get_user_special_dir() which
> was introduced with GLib 2.14. Xfce 4.6 is going to be based on GTK+
> 2.10 and GLib 2.12, thus we cannot use that function unless it is
> surrounded by an #ifdef GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2,14,0).
> 
>   - Jannis

Hey Andrea,

That's a cool addition.

I suggest it should be very nice if you could implement fallback code
for older Glib versions and manually read out ~/user-dirs.dirs
and /etc/xdg/user-dirs.dirs. Just look at Glib for ideas, but I think
you can make it much simpler, for instance it doesn't have to work on
non-unix platforms.

ciao,
    Christian