2009/8/20 Per Inge Mathisen <per.mathi...@gmail.com>: > Anyone else touched upon such an issue before?
The traditional way was: ~/.APPNAME the new location as defined in http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html is: ~/.config/APPNAME or if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/APPNAME The troublesome part is that a lot of applications and games don't yet use the XDG stuff and continue to use ~/.APPNAME which makes things a little confusing, but in the long run XDG_CONFIG_HOME really seems like the better way to handle things, as it unclutters $HOME, makes the location configurable and allows the distros to set a shortcut to the ~/.config directory, as anything in there is not hidden. When you want to increase visibility of the config or mod directory I would suggest to simply spell out the name of the directory somewhere within the game or maybe create a menu shortcut for it when installing the game, but otherwise stick to the standard. -- WWW: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/ Blog: http://grumbel.blogspot.com/ JabberID: xmpp:grum...@jabber.org ICQ: 59461927 _______________________________________________ Games mailing list Games@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games