Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> To whomever tries that approach, my advice would be to have a long look
> at all the botches common destop environments managed to do while trying
> to internationalise directories beneath a user's home.
>
> I mean: those things like "Desktop", which, if you do a German installation
> are "Schreibtisch". And those aren't "standard Unix" directories, that means
> that little software knows them, ergo they had the chance to start off a
> relatively clean slate.
The XDG conventions are a good thing to look at.
https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to
choose from!
-dsr-
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