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[stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Phatch places its configuration files in
/home/.phatch 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)

** Affects: phatch
     Importance: High
     Assignee: stani (stani)
         Status: Confirmed

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Phatch doesn't match FreeDesktop folder specs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382763
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Status in Phatch = Photo & Batch!: Confirmed

Bug description:
Phatch places its configuration files in
/home/.phatch 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)