• Diff for "XDGBaseDirectorySpecification"

The XDG Base Directory Specification (XDGBDS) defines four directories in a users $HOME dir that should be used for so called DotFiles.

These directories (with their default locations) are:

• $XDG_DATA_HOME ($HOME/.local/share): data files
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ($HOME/.config): configuration files
• $XDG_CACHE_HOME ($HOME/.cache): non-essential data files
• $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (no default?): non-essential runtime files, other file objects (such as sockets, named pipes, ...)

Please refer to the specification for additional directory definitions and further details.

Tools

• src:libxdg-basedir

• src:haskell-xdg-basedir

• src:pyxdg

Status of Packages

TODO: Which packages do not conform to the XDGBDS and has a bug been filled upstream?

* mplayer: upstream bug

e.g.: ZSH, gimp, ssh, gnupg, mplayer, dbus, libpurple/pidgin,

Links

• Modify your application to use XDG folders - Blog post from Lionel Dricot

• Fedora initiative to make packages conform to XDGBDS

• Gnome Goal to conform to XDGBDS

• KDE site on XDGBDS