On Saturday 13 Jun 2009 16:46:10 Nix wrote: > On 13 May 2009, Jason Taylor spake thusly: > > > shouldn't the directory be ~/.config/pulseaudio now ? > > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > That's very non-Unixlike. Unix tradition has always been that if you > need multiple per-user configuration files, you put them in a > dot-directory in the user's $HOME named after the creating application. > Technically clued users know this. > > Personally, if something went wrong with PA I would never think of > looking in ~/.config/, because the directory is plainly superfluous: > dotfiles in $HOME *are* configuration, so there's no need for an extra > layer of directories. As there's no way everything will ever switch to > using ~/.config, all this does is adds an inconsistent place to keep > config files: and Unix has been fairly free of such inconsistencies > until now. > > *slouches off, grumbling about people who don't know Unix being condemned > to reinvent it* I take it you're not a KDE user then Lennart... ~/.kde/share/apps/config/ ;) While your statement is true it's not entirely fair, many apps (including dbus) create a ~/.appname directory and store their config there. Personally I prefer that, I don't want my ~ directory filling up with loads of random guff, hidden or not.. :) Mark > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss >
