Hi, the file system hierarchy standard defines nothing about $HOME.
I think a little standard (recommendation) would be good. Here are some ideas: If email is stored under $HOME the path to the inbox directory should be $HOME/Maildir/Inbox/. Every MUA and MDA uses a different default location. It would be good to have a recommendation. In the Maildir base directory (~/Maildir) all directories which don't contain a maildir directory must start with a dot. This means all index files must start with a dot. The index file for "myfolder", should be beginn with ".myfolder." Background: I tried some MUAs, and now the maildir base directory contains a lot of index files. That's annoying if you use e.g. mutt, which displays all the index files, too. To avoid too many dot-files and dot-directories under $HOME, applications can use $HOME/.etc/myapp/. If ~/.etc/ is used, "myapp" must be a directory. The above idea could be done with more directories: ~/.tmp ~/.var ... In my HOME directory there are 191 dotfiles/dotdirectories. That's too much. What do you think? How to write a recommendation/standard for things like this? Thomas -- Thomas Güttler, http://www.tbz-pariv.de/ Bernsdorfer Str. 210-212, 09126 Chemnitz, Tel.: 0371/5347-917 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
