[MPlayer-dev-eng] XDG basedir standard (suggestion)
Jorge Fábregas
jfabregas at onelinkpr.net
Tue May 22 18:44:19 CEST 2007
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 12:32 pm, RC wrote:
> Sounds like a mess, IMHO.
In the context of one app (in this case, mplayer) probably yes....
> Sounds like a mess, IMHO. At best, that would simply spread the
> contents of .mplayer across 3 different folders. At worst, it could be
> a severe, disordered mess of various files, with no information which
> program each belongs to, potentially conflicting file and folder name,
> etc.
>
> Is there some reason for it, other than hiding the mess of dot files?
I think the major benefit is indeed hiding the mess of dot files when you have
a bunch of different apps installed.
Jorge
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