On Sep 4, 2008, at 14:27 , Calvin Smith wrote:
On 08/31/2008 12:27 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Let me rephrase this: KDE already does the right thing. GNOME seems to finally be getting there. Why do I need custom configuration for xmonad?
On the support issue that Spencer and Devin mentioned, does anybody have actual examples of desktop environments or distributions that explicitly set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to some value other than $HOME/.config? Gnome doesn't set it at all. KDE doesn't set
They should never do so; it's for the implementer. KDE sets $KDE_DOTDIR from it, for example. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH