Standardized home directories (was: Use a general ~Downloads-folder for all applications.)

Ted Gould ted at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 6 21:56:14 GMT 2008


http://specs.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 11:49 +0100, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
> The advantage of having a well-defined standard is that we could file
> bugs on launchpad against each application that doesn't conform,
> rather than each user meddling with the config of each application by
> themselves.

I agree.  I think that they should be tagged with a standard tag,
perhaps "basedir-spec".  Then perhaps we can get a blueprint together
for a release once we know them.

		--Ted

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