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Created attachment 1392 [details]
Patch: Make SDL_GetPrefPath use an organization dir on Linux

SDL_GetPrefPath ignores the organization parameter on Linux. I don't think it should. This is important to fix now, before anyone uses the function in their games (don't want their save location to suddenly change from underneath them).

There's no standard for what's the right thing to do on Linux. Some games use an org dir in ~/.local/share, others don't (it's about a 50/50 split on my system). There's some advantages of using the org dir though:

* Less chance of name collisions. Without a org dir, your game's name has to be unique among all other games and applications (and potentially orgs) on all platforms that don't use an organization dir, and even system dirs like 'mime' (as unlikely as that is =)). Collisions already happen; as I said on the mailing list, there's at least two open source games called Enigma, for example. Then add all common Linux programs to names you have to avoid, past and future.

* Consistency between platforms. Someone coming from Windows wouldn't even expect this problem to exist when porting the game. Path of least surprise, etc. (er. pun not intended =))

* There's no established standard, so using the organization dir in Linux isn't wrong, and it solves some potential problems. No reason not to do it =)

I've attached a fix.