On Thu, 06.11.14 11:28, Rahul Sundaram (metherid@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi > > This is request for the WG members to vote on requiring all defaults > apps/components in the workstation installation be compliant with the xdg > base dir spec. > > Rationale: > > This is more or less the current status already with very few but high > profile components including Firefox and NSS. They could be grandfathered > in for now with a time limit for them to be compliant. If more apps were > compliant with the spec, it helps in maintenance of the system, especially > backups. It would also help convince upstreams to take this spec more > seriously if a major distribution requires it. > > Prior discussions at > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-October/010979.html So there's the general problem that the XDG basedir spec has issues. I find it quite understandable that Mozilla is not following this, because the spec is not particularly useful in many ways. It's also a bit too complicated, and the packages which do use it, tend to use it in ways that are really off. For example, they keep writing to ~/.local even though that's probably more a place to place resources in that never change after being written. The spec never defined a directory for "state", even though many apps need that, which frequently had the effect that apps would place that state in ~/.local, instead... >From the systemd side we tried to clean this up, and give a good recommendation on how this really should look like. We should probably get the XDG basedir spec updated accordingly, but I figure there will be some opposition to that, since it was too vague before and everybody found his own interpretation. The systemd document about this you find here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#Home%20Directory While I sympathize with the idea of mandating that apps in the default Fedora install make use of this, we really should get the spec in order before. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
