I apologize for writing too brief description. This was my first bug report here and I have noted to give a much more detailed rationale in feature requests from now on.
Following the suggested standard gives several advantages, such as: * Less cluttered home directories. * Configurable path to config files. * Backup/synchronization procedures become alot easier (copying multiple configurations easily and without getting temporary data, logs and such). * Easier to maintain permissions for configuration files with sensitive data (only a single folder to protect). and for many applications (which i do not believe affect this software) * Standard path for local cache data, logs and more, which are currently handled in various ways, often merged with config data or in some arbitrary file/folder. The consistency of the system would increase if additional programs adhere to this standard as several apps already implement it. / Mikael On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 20:16, Mikael Öhman <[email protected]> wrote: > > For config files, temporary files and more the specification found at > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > should be used. > > Why don't invert a slice of your precious time explaining WHY should > we follow that? what's the advantages currently missing and so on? > > -- > Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) > My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi >
