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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
