Re: Moving dot files to ~/.etc

[Ron Yorston <rmy tigress co uk>]

>Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:27, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
>Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:27, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
>> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:02 +0100, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
[snip]
>> Alternately, might I suggest the Freedesktop.org basedir spec be looked
>> at? At least two other desktops (XFce and ROX are both implementing it)
>>
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec
>
>   Right, using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (defaults to ~/.config) certainly makes
>sense.
>
>   The new menu stuff uses it and glib has g_get_user_config_dir() to get
>at it.

How do people handle automounted home directories?  We had a case the
other day where a user's desktop configuration got confused when they
logged into Solaris and Linux systems running different releases of
GNOME.

Ron