[Pidgin] #10029: Support XDG dir structure

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#10029: Support XDG dir structure
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 Reporter:  salinasv   |       Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  task       |      Status:  new
Milestone:  3.0.0      |   Component:  unclassified
  Version:             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  XDG 3.0.0  |
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Comment (by eheintzmann):

 What is planned about Freedesktop.org Base Directory specification for
 Pidgin?

 According to XDG Base directory specification, Pidgin should not have its
 own folder anymore
 User data should go into $XDG_DATA_HOME (which default to ~/.local/share),
 user preferences should go into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which default to
 ~/.config)
 and cached data should go to $XDG_CACHE_HOME (which default to ~/.cache).
 More details at :
 http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders
 https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders

 Full specification can be found at:
 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

 The Freedesktop.org XDG base directory specification have good de facto
 adoption.
 It has been adopted by:
 - GNOME ( https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders )
 - GTK+ ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646631 )
 - KDE (
 http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/XDG_Filesystem_Hierarchy#Freedesktop.org_and_Standard_Directories
 )
 - QT ( http://harmattan-
 dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qsettings.html#setPath )
 - XFCE ( http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/advanced in Files and
 Environment Variables )
 - LXDE
 - Razor-qt
 - VLC ( https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1267 )
 - GStreamer ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518597 )
 - Chrome ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16976 )
 - many more upstream applications
 - Ubuntu ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6557/ &
 http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/source/precise/libxdg-basedir )
 - Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libxdg-basedir1 )
 - Red Hat
 - Fedora
 - Suse
 - many more distributions

 I think that @APPNAME@ should use same locations than the vast majority of
 Desktop environment and applications.


 There are real advantages of following this specification :
 - a lot less cluttered $HOME
 - Make backups a lot more safer and easier.
   Backuping your $XDG_DATA_HOME along with your files is enough
   (or just excluding $XDG_CACHE_HOME)
 - A lot easier to reset a default configuration if you want/need it (and
   without any risk to loose informations). Even for the software itself
   could choose to reset $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if needed.
 - Avoid some strange bugs that happens because you had a old version of
   some configuration file
 - A lot more of flexibility and portability because no path are hardcoded.

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