2009/6/3 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: > > I don't think the 'freedesktop' standard is much of a standard. > Like I said, it was a mistake to have followed the 'standard'.
Well if everybody thinks like that, then NOTHING will become a standard. The "dot" files idea is a mess, the FHS is a mess. I greatly appreciate the efforts freedesktop.org and LSB are trying to do. The application development under Linux, *BSD, etc is a huge mess compared to OS X and Windows. > The ONLY programs that I know of that write to ~/.config are the > programs using the sysutils GetAppConfigDir. Well, I have a new Ubuntu 8.04 install which is about 1.5 months old. I already have the following applications that use the ~/.config directory. BeyondCompare Tracker Compiz Qt (not KDE based) Totem GTK-2.0 DoubleCmd Menus (various apps registering there desktop and menu icons here) ... So that's not bad for a developer only PC. And I left out all the Free Pascal based applications like, FPCUnit, Lazarus, Lazarus Data Desktop, TutorAdmin, fpGUI UI Designer, etc.. So my opinion, is that it is great that there is an effort no get some desktop application standard going. That way developers can query an environment variable to detect the users preferred directory locations, preferd editor, web browser, image viewer, video player etc... Otherwise how else is a Linux application developer going to query such things. I'm all for some desktop standards under Linux! :-) BTW: Michael, did you know that you *can* set your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable so that it uses something other that ~/.config/ directory. The ~/.config/ is simply the default location if the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is not set. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
