fix xdg compliant download destination

README.md

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Possible future work
 (patches welcome)
 
  - build debian package
- - add hooks to load custom javascript/css for feeds
+ - load javascript selectively and not for every page
  - i18n
  - downloading (only gui code missing)
  - list of unread items

pyferea.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 #TODO
 # gettext
-# custom css/javascript
 # get addressbar/title/tabtitle right
 
 # no double entries for smbc
@@ -256,7 +255,7 @@ class ContentPane (Gtk.Notebook):
             if title:
                 label.set_label(title)
             #view.execute_script(open("youtube_html5_everywhere.user.js", "r").read())
-            for path in [".", "/usr/share/pyferea")]:
+            for path in [".", "/usr/share/pyferea"]:
                 if not os.path.exists(path):
                     continue
                 for f in [os.path.join(path, p) for p in os.listdir(path)]:
@@ -297,7 +296,10 @@ class ContentPane (Gtk.Notebook):
         web_view.connect("mime-type-policy-decision-requested", _mime_type_policy_decision_requested_cb)
 
         def _download_requested_cb(view, download):
-            download_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/Downloads')
+            # get download directory from $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR, then from user-dirs.dirs
+            # then fall back to ~/Downloads
+            download_dir = os.environ.get("XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR")
+            if not download_dir:
                 xdg_config_home = os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME') or os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.config')
                 user_dirs = os.path.join(xdg_config_home, "user-dirs.dirs")
                 if os.path.exists(user_dirs):
@@ -305,6 +307,8 @@ class ContentPane (Gtk.Notebook):
                     if match:
                         # TODO: what about $HOME_FOO or ${HOME}? how to parse that correctly?
                         download_dir = os.path.expanduser(match.group(1).replace('$HOME', '~'))
+                if not download_dir:
+                    download_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/Downloads')
             if not os.path.exists(download_dir):
                 os.makedirs(download_dir)
             # TODO: check if destination file exists