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America's Army => General Chat => Topic started by: Petrol on Monday, January 14, 2013, 10:33:33 AM

Title: [request] Change Linux Assist data-dir to be compilant with a XDG standard
Post by: Petrol on Monday, January 14, 2013, 10:33:33 AM

Hi,
I've got important request and I'd be grateful if you consider and apply it.

25Assit data directory is set as /home/USERNAME/25Assist/, which isn't good for some reasons. Most important of it is that it isn't hidden and it is placed directly in user homedir.
What I propose it is to set it as defined in: XDG Base Directory Specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html).
In other words it should be set to $XDG_DATA_HOME/25Assist or if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not defined it should be: $HOME/.local/share/25Assist.

Yours sincerely
Petrol

Title: Re: [request] Change Linux Assist data-dir to be compilant with a XDG standard
Post by: ELiZ on Monday, January 14, 2013, 10:41:57 AM

What would be the advantage?

Title: Re: [request] Change Linux Assist data-dir to be compilant with a XDG standard
Post by: Petrol on Monday, January 14, 2013, 11:02:39 AM

There is more than one advantage, but the most important is, that it would be done as it should be. Same as on Windows it is placed in AppData, not directly in UserDir, on or Desktop.