Hi, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:06 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote: > 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?
You can go to the specified folders on your harddisk and take a look at the subfolder names. :) There is no "centralized" list of apps for this. > 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? http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html is the canonical place and there might be some mailing list discussion available via an internet search machine ("xdg directories" etc). http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en describes it specifically for Evolution... andre -- mailto:[email protected] | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
