On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:51 +0200, Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote: > Hello, > > I am very happy to see that Gutsy started to implement the XDG > specification. That makes a cleaner and more usable desktop. But is it > decide to implement the whole specification : > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html > > In the specification there is some env vars to get where the software > should set there conf files and their datas. But I don't have those vars > in Gutsy. Should I anyway develop my software to be compliant to it > (meaning that they will be implemented ) or should I continue the old way ?
You'll notice from that spec that if the environment variables are unset then your app should use the default dirs instead. Thus, for example, config should go in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/appname, or ~/.config/appname if that variable is unset. There's no need for Ubuntu to set that environment explicitly; the defaults should be good for most people. Chris Halse Rogers
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