Hi, Le dimanche 04 mai 2008, à 13:05 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit : > Hi all, > > I really like the idea the idea of having 'well-known user folders' > specified like discussed on this list. > I see some distributions (well, at least ubuntu) implement this already. > (the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is supposed to be sourced/parsed by > applications right, so the variables don't need to be set in the > environment?) > On the other hand I couldn't find any released spec on this (yet). I > see no mention of XDG_MUSIC_DIR or XDG_PICTURES_DIR for example on > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html . > Was I looking in the wrong place or are distro's already implementing > this without a spec?
Yeah, it needs to be integrated in the spec. > - the third option is least intrusive. If i understand correctly the > spec will only be about the directories themselves and not about their > contents. So there is no spec (yet) telling the user how to organize > the contents of his music folder for example. (Actually I think > standardizing this would also be a good thing. especially for picture > folders & image editors: where to store the originals that will never be > altered, where to stored modified/resized etc images, and so on. But > this is an entirely other topic) > In this case the user could put this music-collection and music-favorite > folders inside his XDG_MUSIC_DIR. This is very transparent with the > current method. Although if a user wants to save/load a song his > application would point him to the XDG_MUSIC_DIR and the user would need > to select manually the right subdirectory in that, whereas in the > solutions above this is not needed. That's the solution I would use. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
