On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 22:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:54:51 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 17:46 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 21:32 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > Before I'm going nuts with all these dirs ;-), try to set your common > >> > path to both "XDG_DATA_HOME" and "XDG_DATA_DIRS" because > >> > "XDG_DATA_HOME" seems to have the top preference over the rest of the > >> > variables. > > (...) > > >> Thanks but I think that would be a really bad idea. If I understand it > >> correctly (and I may not), XDG_DATA_HOME points to where the USER > >> settings versus the system settings are stored which is why it has teh > >> highest precedence. If we repoint it to /data/.Commond/xdg/default, > >> then ~/.local will no longer be searched and, since users do not have > >> write access to the centralized configuration, they will not be able to > >> save their customizations. I believe XDG_DATA_HOME is used when you > >> want the user settings directory to be something other than the default > >> .local directory. To manage system wide settings, one uses > >> XDF_DATA_DIRS. At least so I think - John > > Mmm, that makes sense. > > > I just realized that I should clarify this is a vserver environment with > > a shared file system via mount rbind. Thus, we can set one xdg > > directory for hundreds of vserver guests rather than editing > > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list on each one of those guests. In a stand > > alone environment, the highest centralization would be > > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list. > > O.k, I get the whole picture. You want to have the following priorities: > > 1. First look for custom wide settings path > → if not present > 2. Look for defaults wide settings path > → if not present > 3. Set the user's path > > > So the question remains, how do we make our central defaults.list a > > higher priority than the one in /usr/share/gnome/applications? > > Then we only can play with 2 variables: > > $XDG_DATA_DIRS → data path > $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS → config file path > > The fisrt one is already set but seems to have not effect (it is still > looking for "/usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list" and the second > one is for configuration files... so, what we are missing here? I don't > think it is required an additional command to populate the changes >:-? <snip> Exactly, that's the question. Thanks - John
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