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| author | William Manley <will@williammanley.net> | 2014-02-11 16:30:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Sebastian Dröge <sebastian@centricular.com> | 2014-02-11 20:56:48 +0100 |
| commit | be8eeabefcec730747369b63395dba941eaf9c69 (patch) | |
| tree | 6ac4fc9dd18914d69ba751c5955a09468880b138 /gst/gstregistry.c | |
| parent | 71ad1d6fdd39840b770bfa03a2822b68eee57df9 (diff) | |
| download | gstreamer-be8eeabefcec730747369b63395dba941eaf9c69.tar.gz | |
docs: Fix location of plugins and registry in home directories
Fixes out of date documentation left over since 0.10. In 1.0 plugins are
stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME and the registry in $XDG_CACHE_HOME conformant
with the XDG Base Directory Specification[1].
[1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724132
Diffstat (limited to 'gst/gstregistry.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gst/gstregistry.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gst/gstregistry.c b/gst/gstregistry.c index 0830395add..dfd87d0ce3 100644 --- a/gst/gstregistry.c +++ b/gst/gstregistry.c @@ -57,15 +57,21 @@ * <listitem> * <para>default locations (if GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH is not set). Those * default locations are: - * <filename>~/.gstreamer-$GST_API_VERSION/plugins/</filename> + * <filename>$XDG_DATA_HOME/gstreamer-$GST_API_VERSION/plugins/</filename> * and <filename>$prefix/libs/gstreamer-$GST_API_VERSION/</filename>. + * <ulink url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html"> + * <filename>$XDG_DATA_HOME</filename></ulink> defaults to + * <filename>$HOME/.local/share</filename>. * </para> * </listitem> * </itemizedlist> * The registry cache file is loaded from - * <filename>~/.gstreamer-$GST_API_VERSION/registry-$ARCH.bin</filename> or the - * file listed in the GST_REGISTRY env var. One reason to change the registry - * location is for testing. + * <filename>$XDG_CACHE_HOME/gstreamer-$GST_API_VERSION/registry-$ARCH.bin</filename> + * (where + * <ulink url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html"> + * <filename>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</filename></ulink> defaults to + * <filename>$HOME/.cache</filename>) or the file listed in the GST_REGISTRY + * env var. One reason to change the registry location is for testing. * * For each plugin that is found in the plugin search path, there could be 3 * possibilities for cached information: |