[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 573656] New: gstreamer doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs

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  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: 0.10.22
           Summary: gstreamer doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.22
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: thibaut.bethune at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: 2.25/2.26
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


Please describe the problem:
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha and it seems that gstreamer places its
configuration files in
/home/.gstreamer-0.10 directory which doesn't match FreeDesktop directories
specs :

The default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config, the default for
$XDG_DATA_HOME is $HOME/.local/share. So all applications should look for
those environment variables and use those default values if the variables
are not set.

This is quite important since it's not possible to easily backup config
& data files if these files are not stored at the right place

See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec
See also
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data
(main post and comment#8)


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