On 2008 Aug 29, at 17:04, Spencer Janssen wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:45:50PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
* "XDG_CONFIG_HOME support" http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005762.html. Applicable. Commented upon. The discussion never came to any conclusion I can see. The 5 non-patch emails discussing it: ** sjanssen, opposed (or at least skeptical): <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005765.html
** dons, noncommittal: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005770.html
** Brandon Allbery, in favor of (?): <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005771.html
** Devin Mullins, opposed: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005772.html
** Isaac Jones, in favor of: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-May/005774.html
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Isaac Dupree.
Definitely in favor, since my home directory lives on a network filesystem but state like this needs to be per-host. I currently have some *very* ugly workarounds that mostly work (need to be careful with ~, and with programs like ssh which trust /etc/passwd instead of $HOME), but proper XDG_CONFIG_HOME support would make most of it unnecessary. And if xmonad doesn't come with this support I will have to install it locally: *all* undergrad accounts live in AFS, not local disk, so xmonad won't work when the user is logged into multiple machines (which they will be; ECE undergrad coursework involves large distributed Matlab and Cadence runs). -- 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