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

[Stefan Bidi]

FYI, my home directory has only 2 directories under ~/GNUstep.  The first is ~/GNUstep/Defaults/ where the defaults are.  And the second is ~/GNUstep/Library/Cookies/, and in this Cookies directory, I have a Coookie.plist with some info about a google.com cookie.  This was likely created when I ran the test suite.

This information kind of throws a wrench in my idea that only GNUstep/Defaults normally existed.  But I don't see why we can't still conform to the freedesktop.org spec here.  They also define $XDG_DATA_HOME (defaults to ~/.local/share) and is defined as "the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored."  Something like this Cookie.plist file sounds like something that should be in .local/share/ to me.

Furthermore, I do not have a ~/.GNUstep directory.

Stef

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Fred,

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> The actual bug report is about the directory ~/GNUstep/Library being
> created. Has anybody an idea, why and where we create this without
> adding any files to it?

I saw that.  It might be good to not create the directory unless we
are going to store defaults or something in them in any case.

> BTW: I also have empty directories ~/.GNUstep/Library/Services and
> ~/.GNUstep/Defaults on my computer. No idea where these are coming from
> either.
>
> Fred

I'll report back to this thread as soon as I find where these are
being created.  It's a fairly good guess it's being done in
GSServicesManager and NSUserDefaults respectively

GC
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