Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-12-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.11.2014 15:32, Rusi Mody a écrit : However there are some issues: if the software-versions in these dont match up then its precisely these XDG files that tread on each others' toes across OSes. Well... if configuration files are not both upward and downward compatible between

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-12-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.11.2014 03:04, Serge a écrit : Later some people started to abuse those directories and put there files, that never supposed to be there. Those people don't really think about standards or unification. Usually they just enable displaying hidden files in their file manager, see a lot of

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:00:05 AM UTC+5:30, Serge wrote: 2014/11/16 Peter Nieman wrote: Has anyone ever wondered where all these funny directories like ~/.cache, ~/.config, ~/.local or even ~/Desktop (with a capital D) came from that appeared in Debian after upgrading to - was it

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I do this on my own machine. The visible stuff I used to keep in my home directory is now in a separate partition mounted on ~/Desktop. I've noticed just one downside: cd no longer takes me to a useful place. So I have an alias called cdd that takes me to Desktop and I'm trying to remember to use

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-28 Thread seeker5528
On 11/28/2014 6:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: I have a question along these lines: Years ago when we used computers, many people used one machine -- centrally administered. Nowadays one person uses many machines 1. Simply multiple hardware 2. Multiple OSes on the same h/w 3. Other more fancy

XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-26 Thread Serge
2014/11/16 Peter Nieman wrote: Has anyone ever wondered where all these funny directories like ~/.cache, ~/.config, ~/.local or even ~/Desktop (with a capital D) came from that appeared in Debian after upgrading to - was it Lenny? Here's an answer:

Re: XDG Standard is not evil (was: Re: Why focus on systemd?)

2014-11-26 Thread seeker5528
On 11/26/2014 6:04 PM, Serge wrote: Those XDG standards were created by X Desktop Group only to define unified directories for COMMON files of multiple X desktop environments, not for some rogue applications to hide their own private files. Each of files placed in those directories is