While on the one hand, I think that the people who wrote the XDG
spec are raving mad[1], on the other, I hate applications
clogging up my home directory with dot-files. I'm considering
moving ~/.wmii to ~/.config/wmii. I'd really prefer something of
a non-dot-dir flavor, but since there's no such standard,
there's really no point. Does anyone have any arguments, or even
any half decent rants, either way? Shall I have to indulge in a
cold shower and a strong purgative afterwards? I do expect that
I'll feel more than a little sick.
[1] As if the XDG spec isn't already verging on batty, the XDG
menu spec is certifiably insane. The Desktop people used to
base their menus on simple, sensible .desktop files and a
directory hierarchy, which wasn't so bad. But in their ever
quicker race to the pinacle of inscrutable complexity, XDG
menus are now XML based and the spec is a full 30 pages
long.
[2] % ls -d .* | wc -l
311
--
Kris Maglione
For the time being, programming is a consumer job, assembly line
coding is the norm, and what little exciting stuff is being performed
is not going to make it compared to the mass-marketed crap sold by
those who think they can surf on the previous half-century's worth of
inventions forever.
--Eric Naggum
