homedir subdirectories, counter-proposal

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:45 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> Ok. Here is a counter-proposal for translations-on-disk:
> http://www.gnome.org/~alexl/xdg-user-dirs-0.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Here is how it works:
> Somewhere (early) in the login scripts we run xdg-user-dirs-update. It
> reads a config file in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, and a list of defaults
> for user dirs in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults (by default, it also
> respects the xdg basedir spec if you want to tweak it). It also loads
> the current user dir configuration in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, if it
> exists.

One thing I've never quite understood is why there is ~/.config AND
gconf. Both seem to do the same/similar things to me.

Nils
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