On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:01:18 -0500 Trans <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably the most useful thing to me about the XDG based directories > are the HOME directories which offer a good solution to cleansing out > home directories of the overwhelming quantity of .dot files. > > Unfortunately, adoption of the XDG HOME base directories seems to be > rather marginal. Distro developers, desktop environments and a few > other are clearly on board, but the rest of developers seem > indifferent or uncertain at best, if they even know about XDG. > > I have thought about the idea that perhaps instead XDG should adopt a > "convention over configuration" approach. For instance, make > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME always and only `$HOME/.config`. That way developers > can target that specific directory without worry about looking up the > environment variable setting. Users can still customize the location > by symbolic-link to `~/.config` from whatever directory they prefer. > > For the environment settings that can have more than one path, it > seems to me it's about time file systems really supported directory > unions. Some already do. And with that in place, XDG could again have > a single fixed location as the conventional target, but distro > creators and end-users could make it a union of directories as > desired. > > I think the idea of XDG base directories is a very useful and > important contribution that ultimately should make it's way into FHS > proper, but it my take this kind of conventional approach to really > propel it forward. > > In the meantime, as I have seen very little progress in uptake of the > XDG HOME directories over that last few years I have all but abandoned > any hope that it will change. And I have moved all my personal files > out of $HOME and into $HOME/Desktop so I no long have to weed through > hidden directories (when a given directory browser isn't designed or > set to hide them). > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
I would really dislike this. having apps write to a hardcoded place and expecting users to create symlinks is ugly IMHO. Dieter _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
