Re: [boost] [filesystem] home_directory_path

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] home_directory_path
From: Ravi (lists_ravi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-23 12:23:12

On Friday 22 October 2010 19:53:52 Patrick Horgan wrote:
>   On 10/19/2010 09:06 PM, Ravi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 October 2010 09:56:45 Christian Holmquist wrote:
> >> Is there a POSIX equivalent for My Documents?
> >> Without a way to retrieve My Documents, I for one still needs my own
> >> wrapper for that..
> > 
> > On newer Linux systems, try $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR for an equivalent. Not
> > sure whether it will make it into POSIX.
> 
> Data point, I'm on Ubuntu Meercat which is pretty new 
> and doesn't define this.  I only get:
> 
> XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=caae1d00b0a381de2973b0004748ac01-1287635546.203915-55787
> 7136 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/

One needs to use xdg-user-dirs to obtain the correct values:
  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
Both the premier Linux desktop environments KDE & Gnome support the spec; see, 
for example:
  http://norman.hooper.name/blog/post/32/changing-user-directory-names-in-
gnome-and-kde/
As far as I can tell, other desktop environments offer partial support as 
well.

For you case of Ubuntu:
http://www.andrewbolster.info/blog/2010/06/customised-user-directories-in-
ubuntu/
If you have Gnome installed, you will also have two packages, xdg-user-dirs 
and xdg-utils, installed on your system. The documentation accompanying them 
should provide complete details.

Regards,
Ravi