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Support the ' XDG' specification by not putting anything in the root of $HOME

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Hiya

It seems my Oolite installation on Linux creates ~/.Oolite. This is not tidy! Why not use instead - as I believe a specification called XDG asserts (see e.g. this Firefox bug report) - ~/config/Oolite?

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Looking in ~/.Oolite, it stores addons and logs. These seem to fit better in XDG_DATA_HOME ("user-specific data files") instead of XDG_CONFIG_HOME ("user-specific configuration files").

In that case, the correct path is given by:

  1. ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/Oolite, if the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable is set
  2. ~/.local/share/Oolite if XDG_DATA_HOME is not set (note the dot!)

Alternatively, are there GNUstep-specific directories that should be used instead?

There might need to be some logic to detect if ~/.Oolite exists and to use it instead if it does -- or is it a good idea to move ~/.Oolite to one of the above directories automatically?

As only two places in the code use ~/.Oolite (the logger and the addon manager), this seems like a fairly simple fix. I could try and make a pull request (though I don't really know Objective-C, so it might take some time).