Re: Respect XDG environment variables

[Slava Zanko <slavazanko gmail com>]

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11.06.2012 15:44, Rashid N. Achilov wrote:
> mc 4.8.1 start to use XDG specification to place their preferences
> files. But why mc don't use XDG environment variables
> XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME? These variables
> intended for overlapping default locations. I don't like ".cache",
> ".config" and similar directly at home directory, so I had have
> done a patch, whcih respect XDG_* environment variables. Use
> g_getenv from glib.

These hardcoded paths have used only in one case: if you specify
MC_HOME environment variable. For example:
MC_HOME=/tmp/mchome-$$ mc

in this case you'll have directory structure:
/tmp/mchome-12345/.cache
/tmp/mchome-12345/.config
/tmp/mchome-12345/.local/share

In any other cases (when MC_HOME variable isn't set) mc used XDG_*
variables as well, you may check it yourself :).

So, I don't understand why we should respect XDG variables when we
want to redefine the base placement of configs. Supporting of MC_HOME
variable intended for testing/temporary purposes only, therefore in my
opinion, supporting of XDG_* variables not needed in this case (the
more so that XDG-variables can contain absolute paths).

- -- 
WBR, Slavaz.
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