From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:47:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y26fka27.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831r490xfh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 2021 21:30:26 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:52:56 +0000
>>
>> If anything, I think XDG is becoming more and more popular since 2003,
>> and I wouldn't know of any other serious contender to replace XDG.
>
> Yes, XDG is the current fashion. As were the ones before it.
What time frames are we talking about? Fashion can be anything that
remains popular for only a few months up until something that dominates
the scene for years or decades. XDG appears to lean towards the latter.
>> Generally I'd agree that it would be better to provide better support
>> for the problem XDG solves, without having to use XDG directly for
>> cross-platform compliance, but XDG is certainly preferable to
>> hard-coding directories as is still done in Emacs.
>
> I wasn't suggesting we hard-code directories, I suggested something
> quite different.
I understood that, my point was that using XDG is preferable to that,
and anything that abstracts over XDG might be even better.
--
Philip Kaludercic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-26 16:47 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 [this message]
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
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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