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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:22:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkHkzw+xxAX2MsgG215ng32P+jCTdMeQaNWu6m=Dyu6ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wnlzyir1.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That's a different philosophy, and since it contradicts XDG, which
> many people want, I don't think we can go that way, except as an
> opt-in feature (which will then become a maintenance burden, as it
> will be yet another, third, set of defaults).

Exactly.  I think "no-litter" solves the problem of "how do I keep all
my stuff in .emacs.d without making too much of a mess of it".  It
doesn't do a bad job at solving that problem, but it is IMO exactly
the wrong problem to solve.

> So we need something like system-config.el, which would use xdg.el for
> XDG platforms, and something else for the rest.

Sounds good to me.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-25 13:14 master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 16:14 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 16:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 17:52     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 18:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 10:24         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 13:09           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 13:28             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:35                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-27  4:37                   ` Po Lu
2021-10-26 16:47         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-26  2:07       ` Po Lu
2021-10-25 17:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-25 17:55     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 17:58       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-25 18:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-26 10:25 ` Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 13:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 13:42     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-26 14:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:22         ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-10-26 14:58         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-26 16:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-27 13:04             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-27 13:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-27 13:42                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-27 16:53                   ` XDG config dir [Was: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory] Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-28  3:45                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-28  3:48                     ` Phil Sainty
2021-10-28  5:57                       ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-28  6:46                         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:14     ` Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 15:37       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:01 ` master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 16:13         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:45     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 16:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 19:17         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-26 19:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-06  1:38           ` user-directory: New library to find user {conf,data,state,...} files Stefan Kangas
2021-11-06  1:52             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06  2:56               ` user-directory: New library to find user {conf, data, state, ...} files Stefan Kangas
2021-11-06  3:11             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-07 19:31             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-07 19:52               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08  3:04                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 12:19                   ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-08 13:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08 15:26                     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 18:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09  7:05                         ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-09 18:23                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 20:38                             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-11 10:34                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08  3:35               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 15:40                 ` Stefan Kangas

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