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-rw-r--r--libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc b/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
index 5228e85527..a523e35730 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/filesystem_paths.cc
@@ -95,9 +95,12 @@ user_cache_directory ()
#else
const char* c = 0;
- /* adopt freedesktop standards, and put .ardour3 into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config
+ /* adopt freedesktop standards, and put .ardour3 into $XDG_CACHE_HOME
+ * defaulting to or ~/.config
+ *
+ * NB this should work on windows, too, but we may want to prefer
+ * PBD::get_platform_fallback_folder (PBD::FOLDER_VST) or someplace
*/
-
if ((c = getenv ("XDG_CACHE_HOME")) != 0) {
p = c;
} else {