Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On woensdag 23 augustus 2017 23:21:23 CEST John Ralls wrote: > A new default should apply only to new installations and should be > overridden by $GNC_DOT_DIR and $AQBANKING_HOME; we should continue to > include ~/.gnucash and ~/.aqbanking in the default search and use the first > instance of the c

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On woensdag 23 augustus 2017 23:30:48 CEST Mike Alexander wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Geert Janssens > > wrote: > > > > Linking has its drawbacks as well though. If I link the directory, the > > files and subdirectories will be essentially the same. However if the > > user misinterpre

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 24, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > On woensdag 23 augustus 2017 23:21:23 CEST John Ralls wrote: >> A new default should apply only to new installations and should be >> overridden by $GNC_DOT_DIR and $AQBANKING_HOME; we should continue to >> include ~/.gnucash and ~/.aqb

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On donderdag 24 augustus 2017 12:11:48 CEST John Ralls wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2017, at 8:57 AM, Geert Janssens > > wrote:> > > On woensdag 23 augustus 2017 23:21:23 CEST John Ralls wrote: > >> A new default should apply only to new installations and should be > >> overridden by $GNC_DOT_DIR and $A

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I'm not an experienced developer, but I should add that there is more variables related to the XDG Base Directory Specification than ${XDG_DATA_HOME}, see the latest at [[https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html]]. Also the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard does allow "$

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I have followed the latest documentation that says that if one wants to get the latest source files using Git, then one must clone against the GitHub mirror, and so I did. After cloning, I couldn't find the "user_data_dir" function inside, only "g_set_user_data_dir" (in "libgnucash/app-utils/gnc-u

Re: Moving .gnucash and friends from $HOME to XDG_DATA_HOME (and impact on other applications like KMyMoney)

2017-08-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On donderdag 24 augustus 2017 16:07:52 CEST Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > I have followed the latest documentation that says that if one wants to > get the latest source files using Git, then one must clone against the > GitHub mirror, and so I did. > I wrote it was currently available in my *pr