On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:57:09 -0800
John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Darren Kenny wrote:
> > Hmm - it's obviously enough of an issue that someone came up with a generic
> > solution - but it's also important to note that this is not just about
> > locale, but also addresses the variation of the names of these directories
> > in different freedesktop.org compliant desktops (e.g. KDE, GNOME, xfce).
>
> So, in a postulated, but as yet hypothetical future opensolaris
> system that has both GNOME and KDE, what happens in my home dir
> when I switch back and forth between the two? I *hope* I don't
> end up with two parallel directory sets, one for each desktop
> flavor: "I downloaded it onto my Desktop under KDE and it isn't
> there anymore after I go back to GNOME" is the behavior that really
> should be avoided...
>
Maybe I'm not being clear enough - that is exactly the problem that this is
meant to solve, wneere both desktop environments will use the same directories.
So if you have a $HOME/MyDownloads defined as your preferred XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
then both KDE & GNOME will honour that.
>
> > It's ${HOME}/.config by default.
>
>
> #include "John's please don't fill my $HOME with your crap Gripe"
>
> It would really be nice (TM) if we could get all these @#...@$%
> features to put their crap^H^H^H^H config files one level deeper
> under a common .desktop or .gnome or .whatever parent. so my
> home dir doesn't end up with hundreds of opaque pieces of trash
> that some stupid application decided to leave behind. Better yet
> would be a way to not need the files in the first place.
> (My homedir today has over 200 "dotfiles" in it - and I have no
> real idea whether any of them are optional or obsolete and can be
> deleted or if my desktop/session will die a horrible death if I
> so much as touch them...
>
> #end rant
But that's what this is - XDG config, which is neither GNOME or KDE specific
uses .config as the root of it's config - if you use JDS you most likely
already have that dir...
Thanks,
Darren
