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

[Ivan Vučica]

...to clarify, I would consider the best option a correct mapping of XDG_* 
variables onto OPENSTEP directories inside HOME domain.

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> On 4 Nov 2014, at 20:55, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> 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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