Re: Question: transitioning towards XDG Base Directory Specification?
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:52:10PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've put a comment in my weblog today about storing game data in
Where can I find it?
> $HOME, and I've received a really interesting comment that I'd like to
> discuss here:
>
> """
> It would be really nice if you would use the XDG Base Directory
> Specification[1] instead of yet another dotfile directly in $HOME… the
Dotfiles in $HOME should no longer be used IIRC after reading the FHS.
Instead a subdirectory should be added (.mutt/muttrc instead of .muttrc).
The XDG Base Directory Specification is maybe even more modern, I have to
confess I don't know it.
> specification is getting more and more common as it gets adopted by
> more and more applications and distros.
>
> 1. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
> """
>
> Do you think we should try to move all our patched games to use this
> spec instead of creating more dotfiles directly in $HOME?
At least we should avoid writing dotfiles ...
Jens
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