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| author | Johannes Schickel | 2016-01-29 20:26:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Johannes Schickel | 2016-02-02 09:16:40 +0100 |
| commit | 687f6067f5d8f616ccd948e43783bdc27f621c23 (patch) | |
| tree | b63b255a9b4081b4d760628e81eec65b98775f6d /README | |
| parent | 2622cded72c93f02b9852e77556279a6bc8e5094 (diff) | |
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POSIX: Use XDG specification for default save path.
This is what the XDG Base Directory Specification suggests to use. We still
use ~/.scummvm as default path in case the directory exists.
This tackles an aspect of bug #6036 "POSIX: Use XDG dirs instead of HOME".
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@@ -1741,7 +1741,16 @@ The platforms that currently have a different default directory are: $HOME/Documents/ScummVM Savegames/ Other unices: - $HOME/.scummvm/ + We follow the XDG Base Directory Specification. This means our + configuration can be found in: + $XDG_DATA_HOME/scummvm/saves/ + + If XDG_DATA_HOME is not defined or empty, ~/.local/share will be used + as value of XDG_DATA_HOME in accordance with the specification. + + If an earlier version of ScummVM was installed on your system, the + previous default location of '~/.scummvm' will be kept. This is detected + based on the presence of the path '~/.scummvm'. Windows Vista/7: \Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\Saved games\ |