On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:33:51AM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
Hey,
On 11 June 2010 10:19, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
I completely support this (dotfiles anger me). If you move
"$HOME/.wmii" to "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/wmii", as per the
XDG spec, then anyone can set the config dir to whatever they want
(such as ~/lib) and be dotfile-free. The path looks pretty ugly with
all its environs but it's the closest we have to a standard.
As a sidenote I was wondering whether we should do this with dmenu_cache.
Except, of course, that you need to use $XDG_CACHE_HOME. And I'd
have to do the same for wimenu's program cache, which I don't
like. I may just do away with it since I finally gave up trying
to generate it portably in shell and switched to C.
--
Kris Maglione
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the
answer.
--Eric Naggum
