I vote for ~/.config/chromium....I think it's important that specs be
followed, particularly when there is no reason not to.

On Feb 21, 7:37 pm, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We currently use ~/.chromium, which was picked without thinking too hard.
> > Fabien already ran into a conflict because he had one of the other
> > programs named "chromium" installed already using that path.
>
> > Byhttp://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> > we should obey XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which would default us to something
> > ~/.config/chromium (or google_chrome for the google-provided
> > binaries).
>
> Either ~/.chromium or ~/.config/chromium is fine. I've never been too
> huge a fan of a million dot-files and dot-dirs in my home directory
> anyway. I vote that we change it and respect the envvar.
>
> However, that spec also suggests that /etc/xdg be used, and that's
> just stupid. I also note that it hasn't been touched since 2004.
>
> AGL
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