On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I think working to promote cross desktop adoption of technologies that
> make it easier to interact with data in a consistent, DE independent
> manner, (like Akonadi) will do more to solve this class of problems
> than specification work.
"Martin Owens" wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:19 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
>> For example you are saying that emails should go to the directory
>> specified in user-dirs.[defaults,dirs] but that makes no sense uless
>> we
>> are thinking about $DOCUMENTS/.email_app/. Emails, while
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:19 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> For example you are saying that emails should go to the directory
> specified in user-dirs.[defaults,dirs] but that makes no sense uless
> we
> are thinking about $DOCUMENTS/.email_app/. Emails, while being
> documents, aren't really
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Geiger wrote:
> Hi,
Hey Sebastian,
(...)
> I just wanted to bring this up, if there has already been a discussion
> about this, maybe someone can point me to it or let me know about the
> current status about this issue.
This topic shows up from time
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:34 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
>
> A common mistake which is repeated a few times in the links you provided
> is the part about XDG_DATA_HOME being the location for user files. What
> the specification means by 'user specific data files' is not your
> emails, photographs or
Hey Sebastian,
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Geiger wrote:
> I just wanted to bring this up, if there has already been a discussion
> about this, maybe someone can point me to it or let me know about the
> current status about this issue.
XDG underuse and misuse is a pet peeve of
Hi,
has there ever been a discussion about the FreeDesktop Spec for
configuration files. FYI, the spec says to put config files not into the
home folder directly but instead proposes there separate directories:
XDG_DATA_HOME: ~/.local/share
XDG_CONFIG_HOME: ~/.config
XDG_CACHE_HOME: ~/
