From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xdg-directories.el
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:24:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838tv3aahm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmvjj4q5z.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:46:54 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:46:54 -0400
>
> > If the script is only run to find the PICTURES and DOCUMENTS
> > directories, then at least on Windows those could be found by
> > alternative means that don't use any scripts. (We don't currently
> > have a Lisp-visible API for that, but it'd be easy to add.)
>
> Should we use XDG under Windows?
> [my gut feeling is "hell, no", but I really have no idea. ]
What do you mean by "use XDG"?
We can honor the XDG environment variables, if they are defined (we
already do in a couple of places), and if not, fall back to standard
Windows places. (Actually, as you might know, Windows _invented_ all
those places in the first place, and freedesktop just copycat that.
Windows had "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Music", etc. since much
more than the last 6 years.)
My point was that the "standard places" on Windows don't need us to
run a shell script, as on GNU/Linux.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-07 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 15:24 xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-06 21:49 ` xdg-directories.el Noam Postavsky
2016-09-06 22:37 ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 0:35 ` xdg-directories.el Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 14:18 ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 14:59 ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 15:21 ` xdg-directories.el Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 15:31 ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 15:54 ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 16:13 ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 16:28 ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 17:32 ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
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2016-09-07 18:21 ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 16:46 ` xdg-directories.el Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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