On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:49:12AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > tom fogal dixit: > > >A ~/.lynxrc setting works for me. > > We have that already… > > >Given that: is there still desire for a patch (which uses per-platform > >directories)? Is this a Good Thing or just a Thing? > > I fear that any change of the default location will require > code to move old files to the new location (mc did that when > they moved to XDG).
...as well as breaking scripts, etc., which assume things. Looks like a day or two to do that properly, and still end up annoying more people than would find it useful. > Also, XDG is not trivial, it’ll require environment variable > substitution, and the path is no static string that can be > referred to in the bookmarks any more. Also, ~/.lynxrc would > have to move, too. > > Lots of user confusion to consider. In Fedora19, the only programs which I see using XDG are parts of the GUI (such as GNOME). Programs run from the command-line, or not part of GNOME or KDE such as bash, firefox, opera, ncftp are untouched. (mc is part of GNOME, and most of GNOME is not worth imitating...) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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