Re: Moving dot files to ~/.etc

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:02 +0100, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
> hardcoded directory is not the best solution.
> We at PLD [ http://www.pld-linux.org ] promote HOME_ETC
> [ ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/siefca/distfiles/ ] solution.
> 
> Maybe support for HOME_ETC can be a good way ?
> 
> Short: this is a support for env. HOME_ETC pointed to directory where 
> user want to store configuration data. It may easly supported by small 
> changes in sources, or using this libhome_etc.so to return directory.
> If no HOME_ETC is set, default location should be used.

Alternately, might I suggest the Freedesktop.org basedir spec be looked
at? At least two other desktops (XFce and ROX are both implementing it)

http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec