On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:01 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:45 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > Ok. Here is a counter-proposal for translations-on-disk: > > http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/xdg-user-dirs-0.0.1.tar.gz > > > > Here is how it works: > > Somewhere (early) in the login scripts we run xdg-user-dirs-update. It > > reads a config file in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, and a list of defaults > > for user dirs in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults (by default, it also > > respects the xdg basedir spec if you want to tweak it). It also loads > > the current user dir configuration in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, if it > > exists. > > One thing I've never quite understood is why there is ~/.config AND > gconf. Both seem to do the same/similar things to me. gconf is a gnome-specific system for storing preferences. ~/.config is a standard (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html) for avoiding putting a shitload of dot-files directly in $HOME. There are various reasons not to use gconf here. a) its gnome specific b) it requires a daemon to run c) gconf data might be stored on ldap or something like that, we'd like to match the config strongly with the homedir itself =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc alexl@xxxxxxxxxx alla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx He's an otherworldly ninja cyborg gone bad. She's a cosmopolitan blonde mermaid prone to fits of savage, blood-crazed rage. They fight crime! -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
