Adding XDG support closes LP#238070

* adding python-xdg and xdg-utils in debian/control 's Recommends field
  * if xdg is not installed, default to ~/.terminatorrc
  * using xdg-open first, then fallback to gnome.url_show or webbrowser.open

debian/control

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Package: terminator
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-vte, python-gconf, gconf2
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Recommends: xdg-utils, python-xdg  
 Description: Multiple GNOME terminals in one window
  This is a project to produce an efficient way of filling a 
  large area of screen space with terminals. This is done by 

doc/terminatorrc.5

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .TH "TERMINATORRC" "5" "Feb 22, 2008" "Nicolas Valcarcel <nvalcarcel@ubuntu.com>" ""
 .SH "NAME"
-~/.terminatorrc \- the config file for terminator terminal emulator.
+${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/terminator/terminatorrc (usually ~/.config/terminator/terminatorrc)
+or ~/.terminatorrc \- the config file for terminator terminal emulator.
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 This manual page documents briefly the
 .B termiatorrc config file.

terminator

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ except:
     "gobject, gtk and pango to run Terminator.")
   sys.exit(1)
 
+
 # import a library for viewing URLs
 try:
   # gnome.url_show() is really useful
@@ -88,7 +89,14 @@ except:
   error.run()
   sys.exit (1)
 
+def exec_command(executable, *parameters):
+    command = [executable] 
+    command.extend(parameters) 
+    
+    return os.system(command[0] + " \"%s\"" %command[1])
+
 def openurl (url):
+  if exec_command("xdg-open", url):
     try:
       url_show (url)
     except:

terminatorlib/config.py

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ import os, sys, re
 # import unix-lib
 import pwd
 
+HAS_XDG = True
+try:
+  import xdg.BaseDirectory
+except:
+  HAS_XDG = False
+  
 # set this to true to enable debugging output
 debug = True
 
@@ -142,7 +148,11 @@ class TerminatorConfValuestoreRC (TerminatorConfValuestore):
   #       that can be re-used when rc changes.
   def __init__ (self):
     self.type = "RCFile"
+    if HAS_XDG and xdg.BaseDirectory.load_first_config('terminator'):
+      self.rcfilename = os.path.join(xdg.BaseDirectory.load_first_config('terminator'), "terminatorrc")
+    else:
       self.rcfilename = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".terminatorrc")
+
     if os.path.exists (self.rcfilename):
       rcfile = open (self.rcfilename)
       rc = rcfile.readlines ()