the xdg base directory specification for gutsy

[shirish]

Hi all,
In Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 the developers have decided to use the xdg base directory specification . http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedi ... c-0.6.html . The part that concerns me is :-

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedi ... #variables

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.

right now we use ~/.config/ have there been any thought of using the specs. & having its place or is it going to be in ~/.config/ for sometime to come ?

Comments, suggestions welcome. I neither have the vision (of what different use-cases would be) or what else could be there so any comments, suggestions would be welcome to understand this. Cheers !

[zachtib]

I have no idea what you're asking... we use ~/.config now, and the spec listed is also ~/.config

[shirish]

I have no idea what you're asking... we use ~/.config now, and the spec listed is also ~/.config

~/.config/ is to be used when a place is not set. I just wanted to make sure that you guys knew about the spec. Now getting it confirmed that it will be always be in ~/.config/ its good enough

[andar]

I have no idea what you're asking... we use ~/.config now, and the spec listed is also ~/.config

~/.config/ is to be used when a place is not set. I just wanted to make sure that you guys knew about the spec. Now getting it confirmed
that it will be always be in ~/.config/ its good enough

We store our config files in $XDG_HOME_CONFIG/deluge so if the user changes $XDG_HOME_CONFIG then deluge will look there for the config files.

I hope this makes it clear.

[shirish]

I have no idea what you're asking... we use ~/.config now, and the spec listed is also ~/.config

~/.config/ is to be used when a place is not set. I just wanted to make sure that you guys knew about the spec. Now getting it confirmed
that it will be always be in ~/.config/ its good enough

We store our config files in $XDG_HOME_CONFIG/deluge so if the user changes $XDG_HOME_CONFIG then deluge will look there for the config files.

I hope this makes it clear.

Thanx for clearing that up andar, zachtib