That is, IIRC, configurable at compile-time, is it not?
On Sun, 2024-07-14 at 21:12 +0200, Albert Palacios wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> Maybe I am completely wrong, but GNUstep's approach to storing user
> preferences doesn't follow the freedesktop recommendations.
>
> The freedesktop recommendation, suggest using ~/.config for user-
> specific configuration files (~/.config/GNUstep/Preferences),
> GNUstep, however, uses its own convention with the
> ~/GNUstep directory.
> Regards,
> Albert
>
>
> > El 14 jul. 2024, a les 20:37, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> va
> > escriure:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 12.07.2024 um 13:42 schrieb Albert Palacios
> > > <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > > Some of the problems you are raising can be solved (on Linux and
> > > BSD) by ensuring that the desktop follows the recommendations of
> > > freedesktop.org.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I normally stay completely out of these discussions on the mailing
> > list but this one sentence caught my interest. Are you indicating
> > that there is a recommendation on freedesktop.org that GNUstep
> > should be following but at the moment isn’t? For years I have tried
> > to implement everything from there that seemed useful to us. I
> > admit that I have neglected this task over the last few years. I
> > still follow the freedesktop mailing list, though. And there
> > nothing important came up in that time.
> > It really would help if you could be a bit more specific.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fred
