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geeqie: saves state information under ~/.config
This is from: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623993
geeqie saves the names of opened directories into ~/.config/geeqie/history. This is wrong because only configuration files should be under .config. The history file should be under /.local/share/geeqie/ , which is already in use.
Maybe Geeqie .desktop files are in the wrong place also.
Maybe Geeqie .desktop files are in the wrong place also.
I don't see .desktop files in ~/.config/geeqie.
Is there any other data that should not be in ~/.config/geeqie directory?
I don't see .desktop files in ~/.config/geeqie.
Seven years is a long time to remember things.... but I suspect it is this:
If you open Edit/Configure Plugins , select an entry and then edit it, when it is saved it is stored in $HOME/.config/geeqie/applications.
The correct location is XDG_DATA_HOME, as specified in https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/index.html
(But right at this moment I do not find the paragraph in freedesktop.org that specifically says that XDG_DATA_HOME should be used e.g. is a desktop file a configuration file or a data file)
Is there any other data that should not be in ~/.config/geeqie directory?
I have not found a clear, unambiguous, definition for what should be in XDG_DATA_HOME and what should be in XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
The problem I see is that if "data" is moved from one location to another, on the first run after the code change the program has to be able to transfer the user's data from one place to another so that nothing is lost.