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List:       amarok-devel
Subject:    Re: make Amarok XDG user dir spec compatible
From:       Harald Sitter <harald () getamarok ! com>
Date:       2007-11-01 15:32:39
Message-ID: 200711011632.41670.harald () getamarok ! com
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Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 22:25:33 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
> > Um, i'm pretty sure that this is already possible by simply adding
> > $HOME/Music to the system-wide amarokrc. I think Amarok will even convert
> > it to the Dynamic Collection collection folder format automatically.
> > iirc, kubuntu already does this.
>
> Yeah, you may want to ask Jonathan Ridell if this is already the case.
> Cause then we could just snark the changes from him  :-)

The major problem is that the xdg-user-dirs are mostly localized (i.e. with a 
german setup $HOME/Music becomes $HOME/Musik). The actual path is written 
into
        $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/user-dirs.dirs
default:
         ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
where one for example finds:
        XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musik"

So Amarok has to get the XDG_MUSIC_DIR value at every startup, since of course 
this can change (i.e. the user changes his system language from german to 
english).

Amarok starts -> reads the value -> scans collection -> user can deactivate 
the directory -> which drops the whole "read the value" thing.

-- 
Harald Sitter
Amarok team        Rokymotion division     Mail: harald@getamarok.com
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