package File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop; # Specific functionality for unixes running free desktops # compatible with (but not using) File-BaseDir-0.03 # See POD at the end of the file for more documentation. use 5.00503; use strict; use Carp (); use File::Spec (); use File::Which (); use File::HomeDir::Unix (); use vars qw{$VERSION @ISA}; BEGIN { $VERSION = '1.00'; @ISA = 'File::HomeDir::Unix'; } # xdg uses $ENV{XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs to know where are the # various "my xxx" directories. That is a shell file. The official API # is the xdg-user-dir executable. It has no provision for assessing # the directories of a user that is different than the one we are # running under; the standard substitute user mechanisms are needed to # overcome this. my $xdgprog = File::Which::which('xdg-user-dir'); sub _my { # No quoting because input is hard-coded and only comes from this module my $thingy = qx($xdgprog $_[1]); chomp $thingy; return $thingy; } # Simple stuff sub my_desktop { shift->_my('DESKTOP') } sub my_documents { shift->_my('DOCUMENTS') } sub my_music { shift->_my('MUSIC') } sub my_pictures { shift->_my('PICTURES') } sub my_videos { shift->_my('VIDEOS') } sub my_data { $ENV{XDG_DATA_HOME} or File::Spec->catdir( shift->my_home, qw{ .local share } ); } sub my_config { $ENV{XDG_CONFIG_HOME} or File::Spec->catdir( shift->my_home, qw{ .config } ); } # Custom locations (currently undocumented) sub my_download { shift->_my('DOWNLOAD') } sub my_publicshare { shift->_my('PUBLICSHARE') } sub my_templates { shift->_my('TEMPLATES') } sub my_cache { $ENV{XDG_CACHE_HOME} || File::Spec->catdir(shift->my_home, qw{ .cache }); } ##################################################################### # General User Methods sub users_desktop { Carp::croak('The users_desktop method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } sub users_documents { Carp::croak('The users_documents method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } sub users_music { Carp::croak('The users_music method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } sub users_pictures { Carp::croak('The users_pictures method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } sub users_videos { Carp::croak('The users_videos method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } sub users_data { Carp::croak('The users_data method is not available on an XDG based system.'); } 1; =pod =head1 NAME File::HomeDir::FreeDesktop - Find your home and other directories on FreeDesktop.org Unix =head1 DESCRIPTION This module provides implementations for determining common user directories. In normal usage this module will always be used via L. =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::HomeDir; # Find directories for the current user $home = File::HomeDir->my_home; # /home/mylogin $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop; $docs = File::HomeDir->my_documents; $music = File::HomeDir->my_music; $pics = File::HomeDir->my_pictures; $videos = File::HomeDir->my_videos; $data = File::HomeDir->my_data; =head1 AUTHORS Jerome Quelin Ejquellin@cpan.org Adam Kennedy Eadamk@cpan.orgE =head1 SEE ALSO L, L (legacy) =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2009 - 2011 Jerome Quelin. Some parts copyright 2010 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. =cut