On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:08:45 -0400 > From: Matthew Barnes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > > {rant} > > As it is, things keep changing so rapidly that it is nearly > > impossible to stay aware of what the conventions are. > > $HOME/dot-something files and $HOME/dot-something.d folders were > > fine for decades as the convention for where "applications" kept > their > > details. Now it seems that the details are being made subordinate to > > the desktop environment according to some awful logic. > > {/rant} > > Actually it's all spelled out by a cross-desktop standard: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > The advantage being the base directories are relocatable by way of > environment variables, and disposable cache data versus configuration > files versus valuable user data stays cleanly separated. > > Matthew Barnes Thanks, Matthew !! This seems like it will be an interesting read. Now, how do I discover which apps and distros are subscribers to these practices? While I'm there, I'll look for other interesting documents, but can you suggest other places where one might find useful and similar readings? Merci d'avance, ~~~ 0;-Dan
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