Open Bug 726939 Opened 13 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification in SeaMonkey

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Startup & Profiles
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: psychonaut, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

Currently SeaMonkey stores its user application data (preferences, cache, etc.) in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey (see Bug 393620), thus cluttering the user's home directory with yet another arbitrarily chosen hidden directory. SeaMonkey should instead support the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification <http://freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec> under GNU/Linux. Similar requests have already been made for Firefox (Bug 259356) and Thunderbird (Bug 247973 Comment 94).
Depends on: 259356
Won't be done before it is done for Firefox, but it *should* come for free once Firefox is done here.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Startup & Profiles
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: general → profile-manager
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Version: unspecified → Trunk
The same issue has been raised for Thunderbird as Bug 735285.
Summary: Support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification → Support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification in SeaMonkey
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