[Telepathy] paths for .manager files and other telepathy data?

[Andre Magalhaes]

On 9/20/06, Robert McQueen <robert.mcqueen at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Andre Magalhaes wrote:
> > That's fine with me, i will change tapioca-qt. Maybe we should add
> > /opt/share/telepathy/managers also to the list.
>
> I don't think so, uses of /opt as noted in the FHS seem to imply:
>  /opt/package/{bin,lib,share...}
>  /opt/provider/package/{bin,lib,share...}
> There's also a provision for linking these things into /opt/bin and
> /opt/lib so that they're available to the rest of the system, but
> there's no mention of /opt/share.
Ah ok, np, i didn't know it.

> It'd come under the category of you
> and/or your vendor being some kind of weirdo, in which case you're
> welcome to patch things, cp the manager file to ~ or /usr/local, or use
> TELEPATHY_DATA_PATH. :)
 I am already doing it on tapioca-qt :-)

> > Just one question regarding the .manager format. I saw that
> > gabble.manager contains a key Name=gabble, should we use this key to
> > identify the CM name or should we use the filename without extension.
>
> I think as daf said it should be deprecated, to remove the implication
> that one must first examine all .manager files for their Name= field
> which can differ from their filename. I'll remove it in the next Gabble
> release.
Ok, i was already using the filename.

BR
Andrunko