On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Ben Haskell wrote:
Freedesktop defines some commonly, but certainly-not-universally used
directories for configuration (rather than using $HOME/.file, it's
generally, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/appname/file). This is a very rough
first draft of using those names if XDG_DIRECTORIES is defined.
How widespread is this?
Depends on what's on your system. It's up to applications to use the
dirs or not.
On my Gentoo system, I've got 124 ~/.{application}/ dirs and 18
~/.{application}rc files, but I have 22 ~/.config/{application}/ dirs.
At work, it's 89, 19, and 16.
The relevant Freedesktop.org standard(s) have backing from GNOME, KDE,
and Xfce, but I don't tend to use any of those for my WM, so I tend not
to have many extra GNOME/KDE programs installed.
The only things I use regularly that use the XDG directories are XMMS2
and Chrome/Chromium. But I don't think I'm a typical Linux user (based
solely on my choice of WM: wmii).
Qt- and GNOME-based apps appear to use it.
Is this something new or established?
Maybe becoming established?
v 0.5 was 2004.
v 0.7 (current) was 2010.
It's always possible to do things differently, but usually doing it
the old way is better so long as it's not running into real problems.
Also, more compilation options make things more complicated.
Right.
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Best,
Ben
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