Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME to save our settings on Linux #3352
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- This also removes the possibility of copying Spyder 2.x settings for Spyder 3.0. The many changes that we've done so far prevent us to do that in a simple and robust way. - I've also decided to deprecate the use of the TEST constant because now we have Travis and Appveyor to test Spyder with a clean configuration.
- This approach still uses the TEST constant but now to avoid reading and writing our settings from/to the hard disk respectively.
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Fixes #2629
This also:
--testtobootstrap.py. The previous version created a temp directory to save our settings, but that also made things too complex and hard to understand. Now we use that option to avoid reading and writing our settings from/to the hard disk.