Support for FreeDesktop XDG base directory specifications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Checkbox |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
David Murphy | ||
checkbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
David Murphy |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: checkbox
FreeDesktop? XDG Base Directory Specifications [1] aim at solving two problems:
1) The home directory of users is filled with many hidden directories.
2) It is hard for a user to distinguish application preferences, application data and application cache, which is useful for backup purposes.
CheckBox does not currently respect this standard and instead creates its files directly in ~/.checkbox. I am not 100% sure, but it seems to me that all these files can safely be deleted, without resetting user preferences nor user data, so they can be treated as cache and move to $XDG_CACHE_
[1] http://
Related branches
Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Dave Murphy (schwuk) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in checkbox: | |
assignee: | nobody → Dave Murphy (schwuk) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → 0.8-alpha3 |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → Medium |
milestone: | none → karmic-alpha-3 |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in checkbox: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Committed to trunk in r587.