Re: VFS for legacy apps

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:26 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com> wrote:

> > ~/.mounts/type=smb-share;server=$server;share=$share/dir/file.txt

> I just want to point out that there's a freedesktop specification for
> where things should be stored.  Not many seem to respect it, but I,
> for one, really would appreciate it if people would, as the root of my
> ~ isn't a junkyard for files and directories.  My OCD really needs it
> to be in order.
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

The relevant part appears to be:

"$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user
specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not
set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used."

So I guess our default would be ~/.local/share/vfs/ ?

-- 
Hans Petter