On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:34 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > A common mistake which is repeated a few times in the links you provided > is the part about XDG_DATA_HOME being the location for user files. What > the specification means by 'user specific data files' is not your > emails, photographs or bookmarks (which are user files).
This mistake is made because there aren't enough good examples of where to put files where they don't fit xdg basedir spec. For example you are saying that emails should go to the directory specified in user-dirs.[defaults,dirs] but that makes no sense uless we are thinking about $DOCUMENTS/.email_app/. Emails, while being documents, aren't really suited for direct access. The same can be said for many other applications that doesn't fit into any of directory listed in the user-dirs.[defaults,dirs]. > All "user files" should instead go into their appropriate USER_DIRS as > shown in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and > not in XDG_DATA_HOME. XDG_DATA_HOKE is supposed to be basically a local, user-writable equivalent of /usr/share. There are many things that fit neither this requirement nor "user data" description. Cheers, KK
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