xdg user directory patches for xfce 4.4.2

[Christian Dywan]

Am Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:30:55 +0200
schrieb Andrea Santilli <yawara at quipo.it>:

> Thanks for your replies guys, you've given me some cool ideas.
> I'm thinking about making the base libraries find out what those
> directories are and give the values to the requesting applications,
> instead of having to find them out every time.
> And yes, I guess I'll need to write some function that can replace
> g_get_user_special_dir().
> Anyway, about the portability, maybe it would be a better idea to
> write a setting configuration interface through which you can enter
> the pathnames for those directories. Something like kde already has.
> It could also have a 'set everything with the xdg user directory
> defaults' option.
> Dunno, thats just an idea. What do you think?

Making these paths configurable would actually be the next step after
implementing support for them, as far as I understand the concept of
the spec. You would basically let applications retrieve the paths as
per the spec, from the user-dirs.dirs files, which in turn can be
modified in terms of a settings application. I don't know, though, if
any of the existing settings plugins could take over this task, or we
would need a new one. I suppose Preferred Applications could be
extended and renamed to fit this task?

ciao,
    Christian