2009/2/9 Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:10:33 +0200 > Guillem Jover <guil...@hadrons.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:10:25 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >
> > > > I guess the biggest issue would be trying to come up with a proper > > definition for state. > > > > regards, > > guillem > > > > Actually I think your "state vs configs" splitup is a very similar > approach to my suggested "settings as configured by user/on behalf of > user versus settings on behalf of the application itself" splitup at > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-January/010157.html > > > In practice, all settings that an app would like to store without > explicitly requested by the user can probably all be categorised under > state, so our ideas are very similar. > > Your wording is probably better then mine, so a huge +1 from me for > adding a 4th concept 'state' to the current list of cache, configs and > data. > Am I correct in interpreting the above discussion as in the consensus being that for now, what you refer to as state should be saved in the .config directory, and that a future xdg version may separate it into a third directory, perhaps to be named .state? If yes, could perhaps this be clarified in the standard? I just got a patch for a command line shell I am maintaining from a user who had written a patch to move the commandline history from .config to .cache. Axel
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