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: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:37:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1c7yez5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sfwp1c27.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6iwylp7.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35567"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 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 17:38:39 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 1mfOX9-00095Y-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48952 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfOX7-0008S7-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfOVx-0006dg-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mfOVx-00018D-0r; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:37:25 -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=d5d1AJYyk+ibjRXV37+J3TnRZBoV7+RNjUK3jGP0Q7c=; b=rpTT74JTnpj5 Vlirw5eT+cmMzCFvt6H3Q+0qvKT9M1TSoS/xD6f3xPJ/ZW640eFTLXsSs9Oj7L5CblGXKQft7D0UN bUAjtxAe+bVUFITza9ppDFq+IjkuKgFFsizgZHsXMpyNoG+ugvHmSC7bODQdKpTyhzE2U8MJ/Reoq EdxKJNd4edkXDS+5nQ+uf/IU8dmJ8JEUTAJ5Ij0bPFgTyjDfhv6Kwxlo8X2IGdmgxIWRj8unxcdw6 ew1iXQOYC/47cJAB4LfZgFS68q5w6t29onSOEIt1SrI2f5AN9bpSPv+ZrhIVUbf18KT/v+7H8uLTn 00l8/yVvIgobNdB/mg6afA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1967 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 1mfOVw-0001R3-Fc; Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:37:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:14:42 +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:277878 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:14:42 +0200 > Cc: Emacs developers > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > How about if we DTRT right away, and provide reasonable defaults for > > all the non-XDG platforms > > Which are the "non-XDG platforms" more exactly? > > Why is "~/Pictures" not a reasonable default on those platforms? Because it goes against the platform conventions. Or let me put it this way: for the same reason we don't want to use ~/Pictures on systems that use the XDG conventions.