2012/5/3 Robert Norris <rw_nor...@hotmail.com>:
>> I already have a patch that add the following beahviour to viking:
>> - loop over a given list of directory to look for the differents
>> extension files (maps.xml, external_tools.xml, goto_tools.xml).
>> - if $VIKING_CONFIG_PATH is set, it is parsed instead of a built-in list
>> For the moment, I do not load maps*.xml files (next patch?).
>
> Again I would advocate trying to use appropriate $XDG_* env vars instead of 
> using a newly made up one

Sorry, i did not replied to your previous mail. $XDG_* env vars seems
nice. Nevertheless, I think it's not really clean to use such var env,
while viking.conf is still located in .viking and not an XDG compliant
directory.

>> Now, it is time for fixing the patch:
>> - which directories to definitively look for?
>> - what exact data should we put in the soonly deployed maps.xml,
>> external_tools.xml, goto_tools.xml?
>> - where to deploy these files?
>
>
>> For the directories to look for, I think $(pkgdatadir) as provided by
>> autoconf/automake is the good one. Can someone confirm this option?
>> For "/etc" related I will use @sysconfigdir@.
>>
>> For the data, I plan to ship all example given (we already have an
>> example file) + all maps declared in wiki.
>> Good idea? Too many data?
>
> I can't decide either way.
>
>>
>> And finally, at the "install" stage, I plan to deploy these data in
>> @pkgdatadir@. I imagine it is the better for packagers. Note that this
>> is the directory used by other Gtk application to ship their .ui
>> files.
>>
>> Please, feel free to comment these choice. Note that before pushing, I
>> will share my patch on this list before, for review.
>> --
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