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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] upgrading to KDE 4.2.4
From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date: 2009-12-04 21:00:02
Message-ID: pan.2009.12.04.21.00.02 () cox ! net
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Kevin Krammer posted on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:28:06 +0100 as excerpted:
> Actually there is a freedesktop.org specification for that, i.e.
> $HOME/.config and $HOME/.local/share (both overridable through
> environment variables, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME
> respectively).
>
> KDE applications usually don't use paths at all, they do lookups based
> on "resource types", e.g. "data", "config". It should be possible to
> patch KDE libs to make "data" end up in $HOME/.local/share/appname/ and
> "config" in $HOME/.config/appnamerc
Hmm... I knew about ~/.config/ (and wished it was config, not hidden,
and all the legacy .* config stuff would move to it!, that's more or less
what I've done using symlinks, here), but not about ~/.local/share/.
Thanks. That makes quite some sense, and would indeed solve the
problem. Unfortunately, it'll be awhile before all those .* files/dirs
in my homedir are gone and data's no longer intermingled with config, but
it appears we're headed that way, at least. Maybe in another half decade
or so...
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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