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

[Gregory Casamento]

Stefan,

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:47 PM, 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
>


If you look at the bug, part of the issue is that people who don't
know that the tool they are using utilizes GNUstep are upset because
it creates a "GNUstep" folder in the home directory.   I kind of agree
with this sentiment as I really don't like tools setting up
directories directly in my home directory either so I can see where
they're coming from.

With respect to freedesktop, are you suggesting something akin to:

~./config/GNUstep/...

Is that what you have in mind?

GC

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