FYI: with a bit of help from a friendly Qt developer, I've now been able to come up with a QSP patch that includes the necessary "logic" to flip the switch at link time using either
QT += qsp_xdg (qmake) or find_package(Qt5QspXDG) target_link_libraries(... Qt5::QspXDG ...) (cmake) and hopefully find_package(Qt5 ${REQUIRED_QT_VERSION} CONFIG REQUIRED Core QspXDG) in KF5 toplevel CMake files. Without those qsp_xdg/QspXDG tokens, QSP has stock behaviour (except for FontsLocation, which is wrong in stock Qt): Standard paths [*...* denote writable entry]: DesktopLocation: "Desktop" */Users/bertin/Desktop* DocumentsLocation: "Documents" */Users/bertin/Documents* FontsLocation: "Fonts" */Users/bertin/Library/Fonts* /Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts ApplicationsLocation: "Applications" */Applications* MusicLocation: "Music" */Users/bertin/Music* MoviesLocation: "Movies" */Users/bertin/Movies* PicturesLocation: "Pictures" */Users/bertin/Pictures* TempLocation: "TemporaryItems" *${TMPDIR}* HomeLocation: "Home" */Users/bertin* AppLocalDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag* /Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag /Volumes/Debian/Users/bertin/work/src/new/Qt/qtdiag/qtdiag.app/ CacheLocation: "Caches" */Users/bertin/Library/Caches/QtProject/qtdiag* /Library/Caches/QtProject/qtdiag GenericDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/Library/Application Support* /Library/Application Support RuntimeLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/Library/Application Support* ConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/Library/Preferences* DownloadLocation: "Desktop" */Users/bertin/Downloads* GenericCacheLocation: "Caches" */Users/bertin/Library/Caches* /Library/Caches GenericConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/Library/Preferences* AppDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag* /Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag /Volumes/Debian/Users/bertin/work/src/new/Qt/qtdiag/qtdiag.app/ AppConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/Library/Preferences/QtProject/qtdiag* with the token; it returns locations that conform to XDG conventions (enough, hopefully). Find the differences: :) Standard paths [*...* denote writable entry]: DesktopLocation: "Desktop" */Users/bertin/Desktop* DocumentsLocation: "Documents" */Users/bertin/Documents* FontsLocation: "Fonts" */Users/bertin/Library/Fonts* /Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts ApplicationsLocation: "Applications" */Applications* MusicLocation: "Music" */Users/bertin/Music* MoviesLocation: "Movies" */Users/bertin/Movies* PicturesLocation: "Pictures" */Users/bertin/Pictures* TempLocation: "TemporaryItems" *${TMPDIR}* HomeLocation: "Home" */Users/bertin* AppLocalDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/.local/share/QtProject/qtdiag* /Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag /opt/local/share/QtProject/qtdiag /Volumes/Debian/Users/bertin/work/src/new/Qt/qtdiag/build/ CacheLocation: "Caches" */Users/bertin/.cache/QtProject/qtdiag* /Users/bertin/.cache /Library/Caches/QtProject/qtdiag GenericDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/.local/share* /opt/local/share /Library/Application Support RuntimeLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/Library/Application Support* ConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/.config* /opt/local/etc/xdg DownloadLocation: "Desktop" */Users/bertin/Downloads* GenericCacheLocation: "Caches" */Users/bertin/.cache* /Users/bertin/.cache /Library/Caches GenericConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/.config* /opt/local/etc/xdg AppDataLocation: "Application Support" */Users/bertin/.local/share/QtProject/qtdiag* /Library/Application Support/QtProject/qtdiag /opt/local/share/QtProject/qtdiag /Volumes/Debian/Users/bertin/work/src/new/Qt/qtdiag/build/ AppConfigLocation: "Preferences" */Users/bertin/Library/Preferences/QtProject/qtdiag* https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/blob/master/aqua/qt5-kde-devel/files/fix-qstandardpaths3.patch https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/blob/master/aqua/qt5-kde-devel/files/fix-qstandardpaths-headerspri.patch https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/blob/master/aqua/qt5-kde-devel/files/fix-qsp_fontlocations.patch _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel