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[John Hupp]

On 5/12/2015 10:15 PM, Israel wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 10:58 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
>> What does XDG mean and what dies it do?
>>
>> ...
> X Desktop Group
>
> Basically this is a freedesktop project which aims to standardize things
> across the diverse GNU operating systems and desktop environments.
>
> There are XDG directories for the user, for the base (where do
> applications install?), where is the configuration stored for a
> particular DE, etc..
>
> Here is some stuff about the base directories
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> freedesktop also made the desktop file and menu specifications as well
> as Mime-types and a few other things (like icon themes, etc..), they are
> not formal standards, but collections of existing standards and
> documents related to the X desktop and they promote sharing these
> standards between desktops (XFCE, LXDE, GNOME, Unity, most likely KDE
> all use many of these XDG_ variables and you also have at least a few
> xdg programs installed:
>
> xdg-desktop-icon          xdg-mime                  xdg-user-dir
> xdg-desktop-menu          xdg-open                  xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
> xdg-email                 xdg-screensaver           xdg-user-dirs-update
> xdg-icon-resource         xdg-settings
>
> It is actually a very cool resource that I have used very extensively
> the past year.  That is why I knew about this stuff :)
>
> I actually ran into an issue with PCManFM not displaying icons in the
> menu://applications because I did not export the XDG menu variable prior
> to starting my environment.
>
> wikipedia has a nice article about the freedesktop project as well
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedesktop.org
>

Nice summary about XDG!