On Thursday 28 October 2004 01.53, Joey Hess wrote: > paddy wrote: > > what about ~/Desktop and friends? > > I don't know if Desktop falls under the heading of being a configuration > file or directorty. Not that I much like that directory, but like > Maildir, it seems out of the scope of this FHS requirement.
Ok, this is obviously off-topic here, but I think it's well within the FHS's competence to get rid of these... +--- | Applications MUST NOT require or create any files and directories in the | users' home directories except | (i) data files explicitely requested by the user | (ii) temporary backup and lock files which belong to a file as described | in (i) and are in the same directory as the data file, and start with | a dot. | (iii) configuration files, a.k.a dotfiles. +-- Or something like that. I really think my $HOME is my castle, and nobody should mess with that. dotfiles I can accept, but ~/Mail and ~/Desktop are annoying (and, in the case of ~/Mail, totally useless if I use a remote IMAP mail server but my mailclient still insists on it :-( :-( :-( greetings -- vbi -- Oops
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