Le Lun 19 mars 2007 10:42, Alexander Larsson a écrit : > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 22:03 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: >> I could not find where to post this, so sending over here. >> >> I changed Alex's xdg-user-dirs application to make it using symlinks >> instead of actual directories. Maybe it's something in vain but just >> wanted to put my solution into a prototype so as to be tested. (Maybe >> someone like it). >> >> Actually using symlinks give better handling of localization than using >> --force. It does not touch directories, so can be considered >> theoretically more secure. > > Each application will have to use readlink() to find the actual > directory to use. For sure you don't want have a filename like > ~/.desktop/file.txt to ever be seen by the user, so you must always > store the expanded form. Plus, you need to fallback on a file if > symlinks are not supported. And all this can be put in a nice common GUI library. OTOH all the unix utilities that work on a file (including symlinks) won't learn to parse your special file. Shell wrappers will multiply (getting parsing of this file wrong most often than not) > So, I don't think this is a better solution. (As I didn't when it was > proposed in the discussions leading to the design of xdg-user-dirs.) And I can (and do) disagree with you -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
