Re: XDG badges

2010-12-13 Thread Trans
Someone with a nack for art should create some then! I've been trying to convince people use the XDG directory standard for a long time. It's is not easy to convince them. ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org

I found it useful to generalize .local

2011-04-08 Thread Trans
Hi-- After working with and promoting the use of XDG Base Directory Standard for some time (e.g. http://rubyworks.github.com/xdg), I found it useful for certain projects to generalize the whole idea of `.local`. In other works I look at `~/.local` as the per-user reflection of the system wide

Fwd: I found it useful to generalize .local

2011-04-09 Thread Trans
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Matthew Monaco dgbale...@verizon.net wrote: That's a reasonable idea but not really part of increasing the desktop functionality. The ability to install packages to ~/.local is a distribution / personal consideration. I suppose that's true, it doesn't directly

what would be in a useful xdg-users-dirs api?

2011-06-08 Thread Trans
Hi, I have a base directory api for ruby and was thinking about expanding on with xsd-users-dir api. what would be useful for such an api? unfortunately i don't 100% grok xdg-users-dir yet, so general explanation would be helpful. ___ xdg mailing list

Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-04 Thread Trans
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 of the XDG HOME base directories seems to be rather marginal. Distro

Fwd: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-08 Thread Trans
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: I would really dislike this. having apps write to a hardcoded place and expecting users to create symlinks is ugly IMHO. That was my first feeling about it too. But after further reflection it seems rather minor. 98%

Fwd: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-08 Thread Trans
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: How would that improve upon any of the holdback reasons you cited above? Is there any public statement of developers in the groups indifferent or uncertain that they would support a fixed location but cannot be bothered

Re: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-08 Thread Trans
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: You seem to have replied only to me, not to the list. On Sunday, 2012-01-08, you wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: How would that improve upon any of the holdback reasons

Fwd: questions concerning basedirspec

2012-01-19 Thread Trans
I really wish the return address was the list, not the poster. I ALWAYS forget to change the `to` field b/c this is the ONLY list that I subscribe that does this. Anyway -- Forwarded message -- From: Trans transf...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM Subject: Re

Fwd: Suggestion to keep the type of a file or directory in the stat field st_rdev.

2012-03-13 Thread Trans
systems are way behind the times without a type field. -- Sorry, says the barman, we don't serve neutrinos. A neutrino walks into a bar. Trans transf...@gmail.com 7r4n5.com http://7r4n5.com ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: Thumbnail spec in git

2012-05-11 Thread Trans
I know this is a bit far from the field, so to speak, but I've often found it annoying that if you move a directory the thumbnails are lost and have to be regenerated. Obviously there is nothing that can be done about this with a shared thumbnail directory. An ideal solution would have to be