Re: VFS for legacy apps

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 14:18 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> I agree with both of you.
> 
> Perhaps we need another variable in the specification mentioned, such
> as XDG_MOUNT_HOME that defaults to ~/.local/mount or similar.
> 
> I figured I'd at least mention it so that we thought all aspects of
> this through.  It's bad enough DBus and fontconfig don't use the
> variables suggested by the specification, simply dumping their
> cache/session data in subdirectories of ~.  But that's really for
> another mailing list.

It may also be a battle that we've already lost:

hpj [~] echo .* | wc -w
140

However, if you talk to the people in question and get something into
the spec that applies to VFS, maybe Alex will listen :)

-- 
Hans Petter