On 19/03/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 19 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a
> > ~/.config/ is that it's a directory that can obviously be a
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Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 18/03/07, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
>> > On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> >> > Also, if you have a .co
On Monday 19 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a
> > ~/.config/ is that it's a directory that can obviously be added to
> > backups or sync programs for keeping $HOME the
On 2007/03/19, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the nice thing about having a ~/.config/ [...]
Other nice things about it come from it not being an hardcoded path,
but just a default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
For instance, when testing a new version of an application, you can
"XDG_CONFI
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 03:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> what is the problem as you see it ? the nice thing about having a ~/.config/
> is that it's a directory that can obviously be added to backups or sync
> programs for keeping $HOME the same across multiple machines ... you dont
> have to
On Sunday 18 March 2007, Simon Stelling wrote:
> Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
> > applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
> > cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
>
> Even better: Fi
On Monday 19 March 2007, Josh Saddler wrote:
> I prefer per app configs right in my homedir, not in ~/.config/ --
this isnt really a point that will ever be "solved" ... you'll always have
people who prefer the classical *nix approach over anything else
-mike
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On Monday 19 March 2007, Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
> Well, I'd tend to say that it's not noticeable even under $(HOME) because
> one issues a "ls [-l]" more often than a "ls -a[l]".
> Besides, moving all into ~/.config is just moving the problem somewhere
> else, not really solving it.
what is the
Pierre-Yves Rofes wrote:
> Well, I'd tend to say that it's not noticeable even under $(HOME) because
> one issues a "ls [-l]" more often than a "ls -a[l]".
> Besides, moving all into ~/.config is just moving the problem somewhere
> else, not really solving it.
Agreed. It's just moving the problem
On Sun, March 18, 2007 10:53 pm, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:46:40 +
> "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config
>> directory...
>
> Generally speaking one lists the contents of one's home directory more
often t
Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It wouldn't become any more or less cluttered than ~/ now...
> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config directory...
I guess you are missing the point? Fire up Midnight Commander and watch
the cruft i
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:46:40 +
"Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which is why I was saying there was no point in a ~/.config
> directory...
Generally speaking one lists the contents of one's home directory more
often than one lists ~/.config. It moves the clutter to a place where
it'
On 18/03/07, Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> > Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
>> > becomes less cluttered but ~/
Jeff Rollin napsal(a):
> On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> > Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
>> > becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
>> Nothing prevents
On 18/03/07, Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
> becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
Nothing prevents from making appdirs in .config too.
On Sunday 18 of March 2007 13:37:55 Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Also, if you have a .config directory to put all these files in, ~
> becomes less cluttered but ~/.config becomes VERY cluttered!
Nothing prevents from making appdirs in .config too.
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Piotr Jaroszyński
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On 2007/03/18, Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead
You mean "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/", right?
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
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On 18/03/07, Nirbheek Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Won't that break configs/increase clutter for people who share their home
directories between two distributions since they'll have to restort to
symlinks to make stuff work?
I myself have gentoo and ubuntu installed and am sharing my ho
Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
> Simon Stelling wrote:
>> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
>> clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
>
> Won't it change how the vanilla upstream version and the one from portage
> behave? IMHO such changes are not a good idea.
>
Just send
Hi,
Won't that break configs/increase clutter for people who share their home
directories between two distributions since they'll have to restort to
symlinks to make stuff work?
I myself have gentoo and ubuntu installed and am sharing my home directory
between them. I have to use ubuntu for mainta
Simon Stelling wrote:
> Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
> clutter up the home unnecessarily :)
Won't it change how the vanilla upstream version and the one from portage
behave? IMHO such changes are not a good idea.
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Petteri Räty wrote:
Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
Even better: Fix them to use ~/.config/ instead, so they don't
clutter up t
Many applications save preferences in ~/./. When testing
applications please make sure you test with an empty directory to catch
cases when an upgrade works fine but a clean install doesn't. Thanks.
Regards,
Petteri
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