I don't put my files in $HOME. Of course because of the dot-files annoyance.
The spec somehow reminds me of the windows registry :D
Dieter Plaetinck writes:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:09:55 +0200
> David Engster wrote:
>
>> Dieter Plaetinck writes:
>> > yes, both the app data and user data (can) end(s) up in
>> > $XDG_DATA_HOME
>>
>> I see that in my .local/share as well. It's a complete mess.
>>
>> So what they tried to do is
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:09:55 +0200
David Engster wrote:
> Dieter Plaetinck writes:
> > yes, both the app data and user data (can) end(s) up in
> > $XDG_DATA_HOME
>
> I see that in my .local/share as well. It's a complete mess.
>
> So what they tried to do is to separate configuration settings f
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:09 PM, David Engster wrote:
> The problem is that data is even more spread than it was before, and
> often cannot be tracked anymore to the application which generated
> it. So if you're worried about applications littering your $HOME with
> dotfiles, you now have a litte
Dieter Plaetinck writes:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:29:41 -0400
> Kris Maglione wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:17:18PM +0200, David Engster wrote:
>> >David Engster writes:
>> >> I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is solved by this. I
>> >> tried to read the "XDG Base Directory S
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:29:41 -0400
Kris Maglione wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:17:18PM +0200, David Engster wrote:
> >David Engster writes:
> >> I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is solved by this. I
> >> tried to read the "XDG Base Directory Specification" [1] but I
> >> admit
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 03:17:18PM +0200, David Engster wrote:
David Engster writes:
I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is solved by this. I
tried to read the "XDG Base Directory Specification" [1] but I admit I
didn't get past "Basics". How is fiddling with XDG_DATA_HOME,
XDG_CONFIG
David Engster writes:
> Kris Maglione writes:
>> While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG spec
>> are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications clogging up my
>> home directory with dot-files. I'm considering moving ~/.wmii to
>> ~/.config/wmii.
>
> I'm trying to unde
Kris Maglione writes:
> While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG spec
> are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications clogging up my
> home directory with dot-files. I'm considering moving ~/.wmii to
> ~/.config/wmii.
I'm trying to understand which problem exactly is
