HOME_ETC and XDG_DATA_HOME

Artur Wróblewski wrobell at pld-linux.org
Sun Dec 19 23:04:25 CET 2004


On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:57:42PM +0100, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since glib 2.6 and gtk 2.6 there is internal support for XDG_DATA_HOME 
> which is basically related to our HOME_ETC solution. And now I propose 
> to use HOME_ETC for non desktop applications and XDG_DATA_HOME for 
> desktop applications.
IMHO, let's forget about HOME_ETC and use XDG_DATA_HOME instead. I see no
sense of having two different variables for non- and desktop applications.

    Artur Wróblewski <wrobell at pld-linux.org>
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