On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/10/13 12:04, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Simon McVittie >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The search path is longer than that: >>> ~/.local/share/applications by default, and setting XDG_DATA_HOME or >>> XDG_DATA_DIRS changes it per-user and perhaps even per-process. >> >> Doesn't /var have an equivalent in ~/.local/var or something similar? > > Not directly; there's ${XDG_DATA_HOME}:${XDG_DATA_DIRS} or > ${XDG_CACHE_HOME}, depending what you're storing. > > Also, if I set my XDG_DATA_HOME to "$HOME/appdata" or something, the > spec says applications in $HOME/appdata/applications/*.desktop should be > found, but what's the corresponding "/var-like" directory for that? > ~/.local/share is only a default.
As far as I understand it, it would still be in ~/.local/var. It's just ~/.local/share that moves. > > S > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
