make Amarok XDG user dir spec compatible

[Jeff Mitchell]

Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Harald Sitter wrote:
>   
>> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuHardyCatchup
>>
>> "Alter applications to use the relevent directory by default. Amarok to use
>> Music, Kaffeine to use Video, Digikam to use Photos, KOffice to use
>> Documents, Konqueror to Downloads."
>>
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
>>
>> There is a thing called xdg user dir spec which declairs certain paths,
>> where certain media types are stored. Most important for Amarok:
>> $HOME/Music
>>
>> Kubuntu wants to make use of this spec, i.e. make Amarok search $HOME/Music
>> by default. Now we should probably get this into 2.0 and 1.4.8 (to prevent
>> them
>>
>> >from patching around :P).
>>
>> So, how much work would it be to make Amarok search this path (in case it
>> is there at all) and make that path not recognized as a "usual path"
>> (meaning Amarok uses that path, but still asks the user to set a collection
>> path).
>>
>> I probably sound confusing. So here goes a show case:
>>
>> Michael stores some music in /home/m/Music but also on his Windows
>> partition under /media/sdb1.
>> He starts Amarok the first time and gets asked to select a collection
>> search path, he selects /media/sdb1 and deselects /home/m/Music because he
>> thinks the music there is crap anyway.
>> After some time Michael clears his home Music directory and stores good
>> Jamendo music there, so he goes to the Amarok collection configuration and
>> reselects /home/m/Music.
>>
>> Melissa stores all her music on her external mass storage under
>> /media/disk1. She starts Amarok the first time and selects this path as
>> collection path. Then she downloads some music using Banshee, which stores
>> it in /home/m/Music, Amarok, of course, isn't stupid and searches that path
>> automagically.
>>
>> Here's what Amarok needs to do:
>> Search $HOME/Music as long as it exists and the user didn't tell Amarok not
>> to do so. The user should _never_ have to select $HOME/Music unless he
>> deactivated it some time before.
>>
>> I suggest to make the path static searched and create a config option
>>     UseXdgUserDir=boolean
>> depending on whether the User manually (de)selected it as search path.
>>
>> Thoughts? Volunteers?
>>     
>
> Um, i'm pretty sure that this is already possible by simply adding $HOME/Music 
> to the system-wide amarokrc. I think Amarok will even convert it to the 
> Dynamic Collection collection folder format automatically. iirc, kubuntu 
> already does this.
>   
Yeah, you may want to ask Jonathan Ridell if this is already the case. 
Cause then we could just snark the changes from him  :-)

--Jeff