On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
Hi,
Anyway what makes xdg specs a total wreakage is the way they've replaced
dotfiles with other dotfiles only to create prettyfied localized symlinks
That's incorrect. The "prettyfied localized symlinks" are neither
symlinks nor are they hidden.
à la windows (a bad case of over-engineering and aping another os
without
understanding drawbacks)
Seems like you do not really understand what you are criticizing.
Had they specified a ~/xdg/ root, with a static directory hierarchy
under
it, no hidden files, no you-need-to-run-a-command-to-known-where-stuff is,
no magic env variables, it would have been a sane environment for apps,
scripts, selinux, apparmor, etc
The hidden directories replaced the mess that we had before where each
app stores stuff
in random (hidden) directories. Having a standardized directory
structure is actually
a "sane environment". As for why they are hidden (and always have
been) is because you
do not want to bother the user with them most of the time.