Re: Moving dot files to ~/.etc

[Marcin Krzyzanowski <krzak hakore com>]

Użytkownik John napisał:
> The bugsquad suggested that I post this to desktop-devel, since only
> bugsquad read the "general" category on bugzilla.
>
> As a low-priority wish-list improvement, I've always wanted to move dot
> files to ~/.etc, or some similar directory.
>
> It's not a terribly difficult move, since programs can look for ~/.blah
> if ~/.etc/blah is not present.  (At least for a few versions, until the
> deprecated location is eventually removed.)  But, it is annoying since many
> packages need to be touched.
>
> My sense of aesthetics may be very different from everyone elses, but the
> huge number of dot files in ~ has subconsciously bugged me for a while.  If
> GNOME apps switched, it would provide impetus for others to follow.
>
> Thanks for thinking about it!
> John

hardcoded directory is not the best solution.
We at PLD [ http://www.pld-linux.org ] promote HOME_ETC
[ ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/siefca/distfiles/ ] solution.

Maybe support for HOME_ETC can be a good way ?

Short: this is a support for env. HOME_ETC pointed to directory where 
user want to store configuration data. It may easly supported by small 
changes in sources, or using this libhome_etc.so to return directory.
If no HOME_ETC is set, default location should be used.



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Marcin Krzyżanowski