Re: [rox-devel] Rox Choices and Xdg

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

On Jul 23, 2005, at 6:14 AM, seventh guardian wrote:

> Hi list! I started using rox a few days ago, and it's a really good  
> app.
>
> But there's one annoying thing: it places an unhiden config dir in the
> home dir: ~/Choices/. I searched the manual pages, the site, etc, but
> there's no single info on how to change this. So I went to the source
> code, and voila: $CHOICESDIR. I really sugest someone to put this info
> in the man, as many users don't understand c..
>
> Well, having used xfce for some time (and its crappy file manager) I
> found one good thing about it: it complies with some of the xdg specs.
> The one useful here is the base dir layout. So there's only one global
> "every-app" var, similar to $CHOICESDIR ->> $XDG_CONFIG_DIR. And
> that's ~/.config/ by default. So we should have no problems in
> changing it, if no one goes against that, and it would benefit every
> one, and cause no major trouble..
>
> Please go to http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir- 
> spec-0.6.html
> and take a look. If everyone likes it, I suggest we go for it.
>

Look harder :)  ROX supports the XDG spec also.  If I'm not mistaken  
~/Choices is pretty much deprecated.