Re: [dev] XDG directories

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:33:51 +0100
Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> On 11 June 2010 10:19, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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'd really prefer something of a non-dot-dir
> > flavor, but since there's no such standard, there's really no
> > point. Does anyone have any arguments, or even any half decent
> > rants, either way?
>
> I completely support this (dotfiles anger me). If you move
> "$HOME/.wmii" to "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/wmii", as per the
> XDG spec, then anyone can set the config dir to whatever they want
> (such as ~/lib) and be dotfile-free. The path looks pretty ugly with
> all its environs but it's the closest we have to a standard.
>
> As a sidenote I was wondering whether we should do this with
> dmenu_cache.
>
> cls
>

+1 for following the xdg basedir spec.
i recommend it to everyone. yes, also dmenu_cache could be moved to
${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/dmenu

Dieter
Received on Fri Jun 11 2010 - 09:47:30 UTC