Re: wx, wxPython and Linux Desktop Standard paths.

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Donn Ingle wrote:

> Hello list,
> I had asked this over in wxpython-users, but it seems to have hit a
> dead-end. I'm joining the dev list to try again, because it might be more
> appropriate. I hope this is okay.
> 
> According to the freedesktop spec, see *, typical user data and config paths
> should be:
> * Spec:https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.htm
> l
> 
> XDG_DATA_HOME = ~/.local/share/
> XDG_CONFIG_HOME = ~/.config/
> 
> I am testing wxPython 4 in a "venv" (python3 -m venv etc.) wherein I used
> pip to install wxPython on Ubuntu 16.04
> 
> Looking into wx.StandardPaths, I find:
> 
> (test1) donn@ddm:~/.../test1/bin$ python
> Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
> 
> >>> import wx
> >>> app=wx.App()
> >>> sp=wx.StandardPaths.Get()
> 
> >>> sp.GetUserDataDir()
> '/home/donn/.python'
> (I dunno what this is. I've never seen a ~/.python directory!)
> 
> >>> sp.GetConfigDir()
> '/etc'
> (Okay, I'm thinking this might be a root thing. Fair enough.)
> 
> >>> sp.GetUserLocalDataDir()
> '/home/donn/.python'
> (I expect "/home/donn/.local/share" here.)
> 
> >>> sp.GetUserConfigDir()
> '/home/donn'
> (I expect "/home/donn/.config" here.)
> 
> >>> sp.GetLocalDataDir()
> '/etc/python'
> (I don't understand this one either.)
> 
> I cannot seem to find the strings that agree with the spec paths as per
> XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
> 
> I tried wxPython's demo of StandardPaths, with no better results. There are
> a lot of nice variables that hint at what I want, but they all return
> strange paths.
> 
> It's rather NB for my app to get the Linux paths right. I need to reach into
> the ~/.config/fontconfig/ directory -- which can't be a hard-coded string.
> 
> Currently, I'm using GLib (the "python-gi" package) to fetch the XDG paths,
> which is another dependency. It feels like it should not be necessary
> because the "stack", in my case, goes:
> wxPython -> wx ->  (GTK + GLib + et al.). Meaning GLib is already there,
> under the surface. I would think it could make the correct paths available
> upwards. Perhaps wx is not doing the right XDG thing?
> 
> Any ideas? Am I doing something dumb?
> 
> Thanks!
> /d
> 
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