260765 - Thunderbird profile should be stored in ~/.mozilla/thunderbird for uniformity with firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247973

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Matteo Settenvini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919 Firefox/0.10

Just a trivial issue: Firefox profile is stored in ~/.mozilla/firefox, so
Thunderbird one should be stored in ~/.mozilla/thunderbird instead of
~/.thunderbird for uniformity (as well as sunbird).

This also make easier to find and keeps your homedir cleaner.

Using the following patch:

--- mozilla/mail/app/Makefile.in.orig	2004-09-21 10:58:59.132134672 +0200
+++ mozilla/mail/app/Makefile.in	2004-09-21 10:59:47.013855544 +0200
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
 ifneq (,$(filter-out OS2 WINNT Darwin,$(OS_ARCH)))
 thunderbird:: mozilla.in Makefile.in Makefile $(DEPTH)/config/autoconf.mk
 	cat $< | sed -e "s|%MOZAPPDIR%|$(mozappdir)|" \
-                -e "s|%MOZ_USER_DIR%|.thunderbird|" \
+                -e "s|%MOZ_USER_DIR%|.mozilla/thunderbird|" \
 		-e "s|%MREDIR%|$(mredir)|" \
 		-e "s|%MOZILLA-BIN%|$(PROGRAM)|g" > $@
 	chmod +x $@

doesn't seem to work. What am I missing?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build thunderbird
2. start thunderbird

Actual Results:  
~/.thunderbird is created

Expected Results:  
~/.mozilla/thunderbird should be created instead

I'm using Gentoo, thus compiling straight from sources.

Comment 1

[Matteo Settenvini]

A related discussion of this bug is also going on here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64607
If you need some cross reference...

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247973 ***