On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 10:47, 90 <hi@90.gripe> wrote: > > Hi all, > > After a bit of a period of inactivity, Matthias Klumpp has agreed to > help update and maintain the XDG specs, including the menu and icon-theme > specs in particular. > > > > If you have any suggestions or anything you want addressed, please > discuss it on the list, or file an issue or merge request. > > > > Thanks to Matthias for stepping up, as well as to Bastien Nocera and > David Faure in particular for all their work over the years to get us to > this point. > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel > > Hi, Matthias. Thank you for stepping in. > > Would you consider taking any suggestions for potentially > improving/overhauling and even finalising the XDG Base Directory > specification to provide something of a proper standard for applications to > follow more consistently? As much as I love the spirit of that spec, I > can't help but feel like there are still some flaws to address, > particularly when it comes to things like XDG_RUNTIME_DIR's (frankly kind > of insane) requirements and the somewhat nebulous nature of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > and XDG_DATA_DIRS. > > Kind regards, > 90 >
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