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Bug
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Minor
Description
Geotk stores its configuration files (if any) in one of the directories below:
| Windows: | Application Data\Geotoolkit |
| MaxOS: | Library/Geotoolkit |
| Linux | .geotoolkit |
The directory on Linux platform should by ".config/Geotoolkit", since the recommanded practice for Linux applications is now to store their configuration files in ".config".
We may also take the opportunity for renaming "Geotoolkit' as "Geotoolkit.org" for the same raison than the rest of the web site.
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Well, it cost me some research, but here goes:
I take back this suggestion. After a long and tiring research, it seems the ".config" directory is specified by the freedesktop.org project rather than the Linux Standards Base, and is intended for X windows applications. GeoTk can therefore continue to use its own directory.
The .config directory is specified by the Freedesktop.org project's , XDG Base Directory Specification, available here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
which states:
"There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. "
a bit later, this is fleshed out by:
"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used. "
--adrian