On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Anyway what makes xdg specs a total wreakage is the way they've replaced > dotfiles with other dotfiles only to create prettyfied localized symlinks That's incorrect. The "prettyfied localized symlinks" are neither symlinks nor are they hidden. > à la windows (a bad case of over-engineering and aping another os without > understanding drawbacks) Seems like you do not really understand what you are criticizing. > Had they specified a ~/xdg/ root, with a static directory hierarchy under > it, no hidden files, no you-need-to-run-a-command-to-known-where-stuff is, > no magic env variables, it would have been a sane environment for apps, > scripts, selinux, apparmor, etc The hidden directories replaced the mess that we had before where each app stores stuff in random (hidden) directories. Having a standardized directory structure is actually a "sane environment". As for why they are hidden (and always have been) is because you do not want to bother the user with them most of the time. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
