-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clint Adams wrote: >On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:20:11PM -0400, Peter Husen wrote: >> There is an ongoing effort (and an XDG specification) to clean out the >> dot-files and -directories from the home directory. See e.g. >> http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders > >The spec isn't clear to me. It would suggest that the selected editor >file be named $HOME/.config/....what?
The relative filename is up to you; sensible-editor.conf or sensible-utils/editor would be reasonable, for instance. The important thing is that it's written to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (or $HOME/.config if that's unset), and read from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (defaulting to $HOME/.config if unset) if it exists there. If it isn't in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is a search path like $PATH, defaulting to /etc/xdg if not set. So if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset, $HOME is "/home/me", $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is "/home/me/etc:/etc/xdg" and you chose to use sensible-editor.conf, you'd look in: /home/me/.config/sensible-editor.conf /home/me/etc/sensible-editor.conf /etc/xdg/sensible-editor.conf http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s04.html explains this in more detail. The choice of filename isn't really explained there because it's assumed to be defined by another specification (e.g. Telepathy's API specifies that it uses $XDG_DATA_DIRS/telepathy/managers/*.manager) - for situations like this where you're not trying to interoperate with anyone else, just choose a relative filename or directory the same way you'd choose a dotfile or dot-directory name, but don't make it hidden. Hope this helps, Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFJzL87WSc8zVUw7HYRAub3AKCbhjwBWhkuvR3dkgvdZsr8/B6/HQCgyj1F zI+MbiTSAlyV6Gqhjb0FwoQ= =QhD1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
