Thx
Yes it is (helpfull). I already know some stuff i just need to make
stuff i need works. :)
I first come here for some data approch too.
Do you think about more data like ebooks that can be great to have ?
where each application basically just has its own sandboxed home folder => most
stupid thing in the world
We need an appropriate data security policies tool with an real identity
manager.
And i currently try to working on a such tool. If people here have ideas
feel free to share.
J.
On 20/11/2021 20:15, Elsie Hupp wrote:
Hi Jérôme,
The Arch Wiki has a pretty good guide to the `xdg-user-dirs` package installed
on most Linux distributions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
I’ve dug around in the boilerplate code for *looking up* `xdg-user-dirs`, and
it basically queries `XDG_FOOBAR_DIR` for `FOOBAR`, so you *should* basically
be able to define any custom folder you want. You can check out my pending pull
request on `pyxdg` for a version of the code that’s somewhat easier to read
than the original C:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg/-/merge_requests/13
The actual Python file:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg/-/blob/8fa45fbbe4cd6676b388ca0549f875739301ed21/xdg/UserDirectory.py
Note that this is a simplified line-by-line translation of
`xdg-user-dir-lookup`:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/blob/master/xdg-user-dir-lookup.c
However, a big part of the functionality behind `xdg-user-dirs` is (a) the
basic list is standardized across most Linux distros, and (b) the actual name
of the directory is localized into a large number of natural languages.
The main reason actually that I joined this mailing list was to ask about
directories for difficult-to-categorize use cases, like ebooks or podcasts (or
code repositories or, yes, games).
So, hypothetically, yes, you could define your own `xdg-user-dirs`. However,
`xdg-user-dirs` is a tool rather than standard, and even if you got a pull
request approved for some additional directory, it would probably take years to
percolate out through the install base and never actually reach 100% of users.
Oh, and you’d also need to get it adopted by both GLib and Qt. (Qt would
probably be easier, considering Windows does IIRC have a `My Games` directory,
so there’s already a cross-platform precedent.)
This is to say that if you define your own custom directories in
`xdg-user-dirs` in application code, you should always define a fallback. And
in some respects `xdg-user-dirs` is kind of falling out of fashion with the
rise in Flatpak and Snap for end-user applications, where each application
basically just has its own sandboxed home folder, rather than using a shared
per-content-type directory, even though Flatpak portals do increasingly support
arbitrary locations in userspace.
Anyway, I hope this is helpful!
Best,
Elsie Hupp
On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:51 PM, Jérôme Bardot <bardot.jer...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
There is a way to to add this own stuff in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs ? I
want a XDG_GAMES_DIR=
Also can i access to XDG var from a shell ?
thx
More specifically someone can mentor me to push stuff if needed ?