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Am Di den 18. Nov 2008 um 8:39 schrieb Omari Stephens: > 1) Having tons of dot-dirs around might make directory reads take a long time > 2) Having tons of dot-dirs around might make it hard to find a certain one > that > you're looking for > 3) Having tons of dot-dirs around makes for a lot of clutter when you list > the > home directory Good analysis. > Clearly, using the XDG spec will have absolutely no effect on cases 1 and 2. > As > for case 3, I find myself asking "when do you list the home directory, > including > the dot-directories?" Given that it's commonly-accepted that dotfiles are > "hidden" to some extent, I wouldn't expect any graphical UI to display them > without some option to filter them out. And if you have them un-hidden > because > you need to put something inside of one, then you're back to case 2. There I have a other view. WHEN I list my $HOME is when I need to find a file which I do not know that is is hidden or not. For all other cases I need not to list them cause the common directories are well known by me and I can type it faster than first ls the directory. Ah, yes, and I never use GUIs for such purpose. Additional there is sometimes coming tar files with wrong structure inside so that all the files goes to $HOME then to a sub tree. To clean up the shit I need to see every file. And all the dot-files makes me overlooking one or two. Sorting them to directory tree with clear structure helps both cases. And for the next it is also helpful. Just see the .cache directory for (good) example. If I go there I am absolutely sure that there is ONLY caching data and not, for example, a mp3 which went there by accident. Ah and mp3s are often renamed to start with a dot if they have no proper tags. Moreover if I search for the configuration of a application I can go to .config and am sure that I do not find accidentally cached values and wondering why my changes do not have any effect... And there are more that use cases. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSSJ/tJ+OKpjRpO3lAQLEYggAr7Z4MWU3Y2HNkN1btcnjCu1t9S7irENm VKflwy4tjR+hq4RW8sX+30wu3AU5WpYnUSPA/4hRycLMhh5bjkMyh7UIwueqfj/N OxhGpvVFLTWOkq3c0wCjCaqLDo8tUzwHXb/YuvzJt/pnHVYTgigtagfk1h68M1IM t2C5FH4pjYMtH8Hk+3iKVBJHcjNA8APfYu/JqAYzLQZ5XYCkGLWPzKZC3v6WZFOL jCd9g4qQ3JLOpiAe5oyp21fYSW3qBcopvrwAq1Z9gUAIU4OjG4kVbRJ07pYXaLqQ ImDKrFIYCFtzyRHPdNd+RwuSKcgOG6o/hghd9Iuwao7OXbBnmbqSMQ== =EfVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
