On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 at 16:08:28 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote: > I think those could turn out to be useful. > > However, I just don't see why you'd want that right now. > > XDG stuff is there because it's shared among different applications, > libraries > and toolkits. They need to know how to find the information that they > require, > in order to interoperate with other applications and the desktop.
In the basedir spec, surely the thing being shared is not the config file/data file/cache, but the ability to redirect the storage of these things to a different location with a common environment variable? Looking at my ~/.config, I see configuration for Banshee, Brasero and Compiz, among others. There's nothing non-application-specific about those. Similarly, my ~/.local/share contains the VLC media library, and prectically everything in my ~/.cache is application-specific. My ~/.config *also* contains an autostart directory, and my ~/.local/share *also* contains Telepathy connection manager details and a Trash directory. However, none of those are shared because the basedir spec says so - they're shared because the autostart spec, the Telepathy spec and the Trash spec, respectively, say so. So I don't see any conflict with the idea of XDG_LIB_DIRS (XDG_PLUGIN_DIRS?), and my only objection to XDG_BIN_DIRS is that we have it already - it's called PATH :-) As an implementation detail, though, the default for XDG_LIB_DIRS shouldn't be ~/.local/lib - people still use NFS /home. It should probably be something like ~/.local/lib/ARCH-OS (with ARCH and OS as defined by GNU config.guess), analogous to <http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/>. Alternatively, applications could be required to look in both $XDG_LIB_DIRS/app-suffix and $XDG_LIB_DIRS/ARCH-OS/app-suffix (so perhaps my current laptop would end up with GStreamer plugins in ~/.local/lib/i486-linux/gstreamer). Simon _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
