starting from version 2.64. Unless you have a special system setup, this means the
will be in ~/.config/blender rather than ~/.blender.
When the version number is changed to 2.64, the "Copy Previous Settings" operator
in the splash will copy the settings to the new location.
XDG base directory specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Slightly modified to better fit in architecture (moved to related GHOST SystemPaths)
Thanks to Harley Acheson for the research and for providing the original patch.
Note: I added empty function for X11(Linux) and Mac (Carbon and Cocoa) to be implemented still.
Update after discussions on IRC:
* operating system specific path retrieval is moved back to GHOST, nothing blender specific here though
* cleaned up path functions a bit to remove #ifdefs
* removed Cocoa from blenlib again
TODO:
* Matt, Damien, please check and correct the functions for Cocoa and Carbon, could only put back existing code but needs adjustment
* finish GHOST_getBinaryDir - this should replace the BLI_where_am_i eventually as well as BLI_getInstallationPath on Windows and get_install_dir for the blenderplayer runtime
* It would probably be nice to define GHOST_getTempDir as well and move those out
* more cleanups...
NOTE:
Things are likely broken for macs
