Re: Respect XDG environment variables

["Rashid N. Achilov" <citycat4 ngs ru>]

On Tuesday 12 June 2012, Paul Westell wrote:
> These XDG* variables have to point somewhere in the user's home directory 
> anyway don't they? 

Of course

> Systems can differ widely in structure, but where else can 
> write permissions be _guaranteed_ for any given user accross distributions? 
It 
> appears you are just assigning new names to the default resources, but all 
> must still be in $HOME.

Of course. For me on servers this will be ".prefs" with some subdirs, for KDE 
- ordinary KDE dirs

> If MC is expected to write to XDG dirctories in common with other XDG 
> compliant programs, will MC need some sort of rewrite so that entries for 
> <data>, <home>, and <cache>, conform to the format and structure expected by 
XDG?

Mmmm. Sorry, not understand - MC use entries, which does not conform XDG?

> Your patch also appears to allow the possibility that MC will have two 
> independant resource structures for each user. One used when MC is initiated 
> from the command-line, and another (possibly concurrent) when initiated from 
> within GUI. Duplication is not always a bad thing, but how is /this/ an 
asset?

Again not understand - XDG variables usually set from script, started with 
login shell (for me is .cshrc). Where is a way to make duplicate set of 
settings? When user log in, they have settings in their environment, explicit 
as in KDE

> If your real objection is to dot-files and dot-directories, perhaps a more 
> general patch with no reference to XDG would be productive.

Mmm. What is your objective with making "XDG-like" fixed names ".cache", 
".local". and ".config"? When you have sad "A", expect you'll say "B" and use 
XDG_* environment variables. 

But, of course, you can ignore this patch. It failry for me and anyway "don't 
like - don't use".
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