On 2008 May 27, at 19:16, Don Stewart wrote:
sjanssen:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:59:12AM -0700, Sylvester Johansson wrote:
Tue May 27 14:59:48 CEST 2008 syljo361@gmail.com * XDG_CONFIG_HOME support
What is the advantage of this over the standard HOME?
Ah, I had to look this up,
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used.
So not quite the same as $HOME
I think the idea is for folks like me who have networked home directories to be able to specify a non-shared (or at least only used by one machine) config directory; KDE and GNOME both have the idea that they have exclusive access to their files and become very unhappy if multiple machines use their configs. (So does Mozilla/Firefox, for that matter.) -- 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