Comments on: Fixing configuration files http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/fixing-configuration-files/ Life, Linux and Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marius Gedminas http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/fixing-configuration-files/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 Marius Gedminas Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:56:10 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=379#comment-1090 Why do you pass -l to ls and then use awk to undo that? ls -d ~/.* | wc -l It would be nice to have some effort to make apps respect the XDG spec and store the config files in an organised way. This would probably require a team of people submitting patches to upstream maintainers. I don't imagine, say, Canonical spending time on this, as there are more severe unfixed problems waiting to be fixed. (Also, your blog HTML is buggy and puts the hashcash input box inside a label, so when you click on it the focus is immediately transferred to the website input box.) Why do you pass -l to ls and then use awk to undo that?

ls -d ~/.* | wc -l

It would be nice to have some effort to make apps respect the XDG spec and store the config files in an organised way. This would probably require a team of people submitting patches to upstream maintainers. I don’t imagine, say, Canonical spending time on this, as there are more severe unfixed problems waiting to be fixed.

(Also, your blog HTML is buggy and puts the hashcash input box inside a label, so when you click on it the focus is immediately transferred to the website input box.)

]]> By: Mats Taraldsvik http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/fixing-configuration-files/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 Mats Taraldsvik Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:41:44 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=379#comment-1089 No, (most) config files should not be visible. Please do remember that there are three directories/variables in the XDG-spec: DATA, CACHE and CONFIG. Data could be visible. However, if everyone implemented the spec, you are entirely free to choose what to name your directory, if it should be hidden, etc.. As long as everyone implemented that XDG-spec we could all be happy :) No,

(most) config files should not be visible. Please do remember that there are three directories/variables in the XDG-spec: DATA, CACHE and CONFIG. Data could be visible.

However, if everyone implemented the spec, you are entirely free to choose what to name your directory, if it should be hidden, etc.. As long as everyone implemented that XDG-spec we could all be happy :)

]]> By: Paul Kishimoto http://www.sharms.org/blog/2009/03/fixing-configuration-files/comment-page-1/#comment-1088 Paul Kishimoto Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=379#comment-1088 <a href="http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders" rel="nofollow">Lionel Dricot</a> also wrote about this on Planet Ubuntu. Lionel Dricot also wrote about this on Planet Ubuntu.

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