Re: RFC: use the XDG Base Directory Specification for configuration data

Subject: Re: RFC: use the XDG Base Directory Specification for configuration data

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:19:40 +0100

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, David Bremner, Justus Winter, notmuch mailing list

Cc:

From: Pieter Praet

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:35:37 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:44:16 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> 
> > On my machine all of the programs (except nottoomuch ;) ) that use
> > ~/.config are gui based, and a bunch of them store binary blobs (or not
> > plain text anyway) there. It might be irrational, but I don't really
> > want notmuch to be associated with that crowd ;).
> 
> It's not all gui applications.  I see multiple non-gui apps storing
> their config in there.  I would personally love it if everything
> respected that standard.  It would clear up my home directory
> significantly.
> 

Full ACK!

> jamie.


Peace

-- 
Pieter

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