From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:11:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83zgqvyiyh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sfwp1c27.fsf@gnu.org> <87y26hqdxy.fsf@posteo.net> <83a6ix12k8.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuh5q9dz.fsf@posteo.net> <831r490xfh.fsf@gnu.org> <83bl3cyltv.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21243"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 16:13:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mfNCe-0005Ii-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:13:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57324 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfNCc-0007M4-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfNAh-0005Px-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfNAh-0007m8-Dg; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:11:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZD9i+v2AgxoTNIGanZAcHz7L+kil71Kk9NEyX9R5LdM=; b=mmUj1+azBTFm XLJHLtRGoZJt9TnJ1KkZYhXx6iY03ClUtLSoWl6RWduAFO3HT0o8I0r3CsSB/lGPoxZKLezaEwz7p 03JBA9GNC+eVqrBKR5rU68fq3G1Z75fFJTo3fty1O92k6N85e1jfsC45oLbexdoMFRhJIqGKYBxod RvPgb6plgpV1S3YdFv167AizhENyV5AvFcQcnSUMUTnMAGqkuiz/pQhlNE0e4a80afxpI66mALenn TkesAm+ZO0P4WTvAZoifxl6att37kFbZQ1jtThl8DDWza3qLqlKshBRk+BCFU+FxpDyPDA5PN8ynV /NAZXfZnOS1/PvDWJNZkig==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4668 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfNAg-0005R3-T2; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:11:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:28:27 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277861 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:28:27 +0200 > Cc: "Philip K." , Emacs developers > > AFAIK, there was no standard before the XDG BDS which it could > replace, there exists no competing standard, and so far there has been > no standard proposed to replace it. Is that wrong? The original standard was to use files that begin with a dot in the user's home directory, with system-wide defaults in /etc or /usr/etc. Then came the standard (copy-cat from Windows) that each type of files had its own directory under the home directory -- so we have ~/Pictures, ~/Documents, ~/Desktop, ~/Mail, etc. And now we have XDG. I'm sure they will invent something else in a few years, which will of course be the best thing since sliced bread.