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 mine. More pressure on projects to adopt the spec would clear up whole hosts of problems we have with backup, configs and upgrades. 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 bookmarks (which are user files). It's means instead any of the program files that would have been put in /usr/local if you had access to write to that directory. A perfect example of something that should go into XDG_DATA_HOME is firefox plugins or gnome themes (or wallpaper hard links). All "user files" should instead go into their appropriate USER_DIRS as shown in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and not in XDG_DATA_HOME. I wonder if we could get some of those links clarified. Martin, -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
