GNOME currently has an open bug [1] which is aimed at using the XDG basedir spec to eliminate some of the numerous folders in $HOME for each user. I love this idea, and I've been following the bug closely. One particular directory which can't be fixed currently is ~/.thumbnails. I've filed a bug [2] about this particular issue so I wanted to bring it up here for discussion.
The thumbnailer spec [3] points to the ~/.thumbnails directory for the cache of specific-sized thumbnails. Although I call them cache, it is arguable that they may be user data. The issue I have is that the basedir spec [4] specifies an environment variable $XDG_CACHE_HOME which is intended as the base for all "user-specific non-essential (cached) data". I feel that the thumbnail cache would fit in there. Is there a chance of getting the spec changed to point to $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails instead perhaps? Is it even open for discussion? Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
