On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Michael Van Canneyt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I believe Microsoft has a LocalAppData location, but not sure if that > >> is also used for GetAppConfigDir(False). > > > > Yes it is. > > Umm... :-( > > >> For example: freedesktop.org (I believe) specifies the following file: > >> $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs > > > > Well, on my system this file does not exist. > > I can't remember ever installing it myself, but it seems to be > included as part of the following Ubuntu (deb) packages: > * xdg-user-dirs > * xdg-user-dirs-gtk > > Which also has defaults in the following locations: > /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf > /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults > > More info here: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs > > I don't know which applications actually adhere to these locations > though, but I'm willing to start. :-) On a KDE system: none. gru: >ls /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf ls: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf: No such file or directory > > It's not so easy to find a good compromise. > > I agree, hence my posting here... ;-) > > > > I was already not very happy about the change to use ~/.config/appname > > instead of .appname. > > Oh, I welcomed that change. :-) I hate having my $HOME directory full > of hidden files and directories. It's to disorganised for my liking. > > > > The fact that the freedesktop.org specs are not very binding, doesn't > > make it very suitable in my eyes. > > Well at least they are trying to making things easier for desktop > applications. Using things like 'xdg-open' instead of trying to find > the correct user preferred application to open HTTP, text files, HTML, > PDF etc... files. It's a huge time saver! I wish more and more > applications will start following these guidelines. Unix and Linux > systems really need some consistency in the desktop application space. Well, KDE is a good standard as far as I'm concerned. Everything is in - more or less - logical places, and it's very well standardized. But it is not the freedesktop standard.... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
