Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2013-08-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:27:21 -0700 Thomas Kluyver tak...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 22, 2013 6:17 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:05:08 +0100 Jerome Leclanche adys...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro wrote

Re: Base Directory Specification - XDG_*_DIRS syntax

2012-01-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:57:51 + Simon McVittie simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 at 21:16:49 -0500, Charles Suprin wrote: Since no-one else has brought this up, there are portability considerations. There are colons in Windows paths. The ever famous c:\. Also

Re: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:01:18 -0500 Trans transf...@gmail.com wrote: Probably the most useful thing to me about the XDG based directories are the HOME directories which offer a good solution to cleansing out home directories of the overwhelming quantity of .dot files. Unfortunately, adoption

Re: basedir-spec: machine specific config files

2011-09-22 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:18:16 +0200 Niels Ole Salscheider niels_...@salscheider-online.de wrote: Hello, I would like to propose to distinguish between machine specific and machine independent config files for the next basedir-spec. So machine dependent config files could be stored in e. g.

Re: .log directory

2010-01-30 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:30:12 -0500 Rodney Dawes dobey.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:17 +0100, Wolfram Kleff wrote: Request for Comments/Standards update suggestion: I would like to suggest a .log directory in the $HOME directory like the .cache directory. The .log

Re: basedir spec

2009-12-25 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:34:38 +0100 Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: On Friday, 2009-12-25, Bernd wrote: Hello, I reported an issue on the TV-Browser issue tracker to respect the freedesktop basedir specification: http://tvbrowser.org:8080/jira/browse/TVB-721 But they

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-03-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:17:43 +0100 Axel Liljencrantz liljencra...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/4 Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be ... Imho that would fall in the config section, because the user configured the variables explicitly. Note that state vs config is not about persistent vs

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-03-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:59:02 +0100 Axel Liljencrantz liljencra...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/2 Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be It's always hard to define those things in words, but I think the wordings @ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-February/010191.html are quite

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-02-09 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:10:33 +0200 Guillem Jover guil...@hadrons.org wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:10:25 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: I see your points and they make sense. I think the real issue is no longer is it configuration or not, but rather is it configuration

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-01-15 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM, David Faure dfa...@trolltech.com wrote: I think we agree, but we both sent ambiguous enough emails to misunderstand each other :-) You are of course 100% right. I misread the quotes in earlier emails and thought you were one to

Re: What constitutes user configuration files in the XDG basedir spec?

2009-01-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Rodney Dawes wrote: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 22:09 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Hi all, at http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html it is explained that $XDG_DATA_{HOME,DIRS} is for (user specific) data files and $XDG_CONFIG_{HOME,DIRS} for (user specific

Re: Why .local/share ?

2008-11-12 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: Generally, $HOME/bin/`arch` for binaries, or $HOME/lib/`arch`... It can get tricky for things like GIMP plugins. Yes, but who actually *does* this? As much as it would be nice if everyone did, it's rare for an app to consider multi-arch on the same filesystem.

well-known user folders in a distributed environment

2008-05-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi all, I really like the idea the idea of having 'well-known user folders' specified like discussed on this list. I see some distributions (well, at least ubuntu) implement this already. (the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is supposed to be sourced/parsed by applications right, so the variables