From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: ferkiwi@gmail.com, 583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:14:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r3d0gozpjk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09f0b6af-213f-cc04-336b-00850ba0f3bf@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:11:45 -0700")
Paul Eggert wrote:
>> ~/.emacs.d/ -> ~/.config/emacs/?
>
> Yes, that's what Emacs basically has in master now. I don't see where
> Fernando mentioned ELPA, though.
He didn't. Elpa may not even have existed when this report was opened.
I was using it as an example.
> And it's not clear that an ELPA package's files should be considered
> "user specific data files" (XDG_DATA_HOME) as opposed to "user
> specific configuration files" (XDG_CONFIG_HOME).
It seems clear to me. They are data, not configuration. You would not
install them under /etc, but somewhere like /usr/share.
> For what it's worth, I found an old directory named '~/.gimp-2.8' and
> a newer one named '~/.config/GIMP/2.10' with similar structure. It
> appears that when GIMP made the transition to XDG style in GIMP
> version 2.9.2, it did what Emacs just did in master now: that is, GIMP
> moved all its stuff into ~/config/GIMP. Although I don't use GIMP
> plug-ins, the GIMP plug-ins directory moved too.
IMO "dump everything under ~/.config/emacs" isn't a proper
implementation, even if some other packages have done this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2012-12-08 12:18 ` bug#583: XDG basedir specification Eric Heintzmann
2012-12-08 19:06 ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-08 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 21:57 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 16:50 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 2:17 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 2:14 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2019-08-29 6:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 8:42 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-29 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:35 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 8:02 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 1:56 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Paul Eggert
2019-09-02 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2019-09-03 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:54 ` Mike Carifio
2020-08-13 11:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-01 2:02 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 18:40 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 23:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-31 21:51 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-11 9:21 ` Sven Joachim
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