On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
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.
FHS, I don't know; But .dot files are IMHO easy to grasp.
I really don't see what the problem is with the .dot files, and why this
custom had to be changed.
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.
Why ? Windows is even more of a mess as far as I'm concerned,
and I develop on it since years. With each version of windows,
I'd have to relocate all my application files. Debugging problems
is next to impossible, because Windows is a black box. No thanks.
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)
...
Probably the fact that I use KDE - which has it's own tree - explains
that my directory is empty.
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! :-)
So am I, but I don't have the impression that the freedesktop one
is much followed.
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.
I know this, but in practice, what can I set it to ? $HOME is not an
option, because then my home directory is cluttered with visible
files and directories.
Michael.
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