On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Thomas Leonard wrote: > The spec says: > > "There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific data > files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment > variable $XDG_DATA_HOME." > > I think "user-specific data" is very confusing here. > > However, the default user (~/.local/share) and system (/usr/local/share/:/ > usr/share/) paths indicate what it is really for. In other words, it is > for things that could reasonably go in /usr/share. > > Or, for what would result if you did: > > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local/ && make install
User-specific data can also be generated by the program at runtime, it doesn't have to come from install time. For instance in ~/.local/share you can find your trash directory :) -- David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
