On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:52, Andreas Fester wrote: > Hi, > > there is an interesting blog discussion about dotfiles in user home > directories: > > http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folde >rs/ > > I already thought about the same topic, and since I think its crucial > for desktop environments I wanted to spread it here to see what others > think about it... The freedesktop base directory spec has the folowing: The XDG Base Directory Specification is based on the following concepts: - There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific data files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME. - There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific configuration files should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. - There is a single base directory relative to which user-specific non-essential (cached) data should be written. This directory is defined by the environment variable $XDG_CACHE_HOME. With defaults values as thus: - XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share - XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config - XDG_CACHE_COME=$HOME/.cache -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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