Re: Wondering if ~/GNUstep shouldn't be ~/.GNUstep (i.e. hidden..)

[Ivan Vučica]

Agreed here.

Aside from attempting not to break attempts to read files in ~/GNUstep which 
seems to belong in gnustep-base, this seems like more of a gnustep-make change.

I'm in favor of changing the default without breaking the old default.

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> On 4 Nov 2014, at 20:47, Stefan <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Personally, I think we should try to conform a little more to the 
> freedesktop.org XDG directory structure 
> (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html). In 
> particular, I think we should put defaults in ~/.config or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME 
> directory.
> 
> Now that GNUstep uses separate defaults files, we can just dump the files 
> directly there.
> 
> If this were the case, we could simple move the ~/GNUstep directory structure 
> to ~/ since it would only exist if somebody installed something to the HOME 
> domain.
> 
> Anyway, it's just a thought.
> 
> Stef
> 
>> On November 4, 2014 2:06:00 PM CST, Gregory Casamento 
>> <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Revisiting something from WAAAAY in the past, I'm wondering if this
>> shouldn't be reconsidered....
>> 
>> Given that we have people using tools on Linux such as this one...
>> 
>> https://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/
>> 
>> WIth issues like this:
>> 
>> https://code.google.com/p/theunarchiver/issues/detail?id=644
>> 
>> Should we at least provide the option to hide the directory or,
>> possibly, make it hidden by default?   There's no real reason why it
>> needs to be exposed.  Any thoughts guys?
>> 
>> GC
> 
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