Re: Setting default GNOME settings with XDG_DATA_DIRS
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 22:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:54:51 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 17:46 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 21:32 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> > Before I'm going nuts with all these dirs ;-), try to set your common
> >> > path to both "XDG_DATA_HOME" and "XDG_DATA_DIRS" because
> >> > "XDG_DATA_HOME" seems to have the top preference over the rest of the
> >> > variables.
>
> (...)
>
> >> Thanks but I think that would be a really bad idea. If I understand it
> >> correctly (and I may not), XDG_DATA_HOME points to where the USER
> >> settings versus the system settings are stored which is why it has teh
> >> highest precedence. If we repoint it to /data/.Commond/xdg/default,
> >> then ~/.local will no longer be searched and, since users do not have
> >> write access to the centralized configuration, they will not be able to
> >> save their customizations. I believe XDG_DATA_HOME is used when you
> >> want the user settings directory to be something other than the default
> >> .local directory. To manage system wide settings, one uses
> >> XDF_DATA_DIRS. At least so I think - John
>
> Mmm, that makes sense.
>
> > I just realized that I should clarify this is a vserver environment with
> > a shared file system via mount rbind. Thus, we can set one xdg
> > directory for hundreds of vserver guests rather than editing
> > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list on each one of those guests. In a stand
> > alone environment, the highest centralization would be
> > /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list.
>
> O.k, I get the whole picture. You want to have the following priorities:
>
> 1. First look for custom wide settings path
> → if not present
> 2. Look for defaults wide settings path
> → if not present
> 3. Set the user's path
>
> > So the question remains, how do we make our central defaults.list a
> > higher priority than the one in /usr/share/gnome/applications?
>
> Then we only can play with 2 variables:
>
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS → data path
> $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS → config file path
>
> The fisrt one is already set but seems to have not effect (it is still
> looking for "/usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list" and the second
> one is for configuration files... so, what we are missing here? I don't
> think it is required an additional command to populate the changes >:-?
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Exactly, that's the question. Thanks - John
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