Well, I made a patch that supports this standard. I tested it and it seems work fine.
http://www.pasteall.org/25948/diff Download: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/498/28943/18167/blender_add_xdg_base_directory_support.patch It adds a build option (disable by default) so for the moment does not imply any drastic change. I know changing paths should not be done lightly... but: * It's a FreeDesktop standard. * Popular apps like Chrome, PulseAudio, VLC, Transmission, Qt Framework, Wormux, GStreamer... support it. * There are more and more software supporting it or they are working on it (Firefox and Gimp, for example) This is NOT about just moving hidden .blender in a huge .config. It's about separation of user data, preferences and cache element. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ But for now the patch only supports XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR and XDG_CONFIG_HOME. For more info check: http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders http://ploum.net/post/184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/03/the-ugly-duckling-called-xdg_config_home _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers