Re: XDG directory compliance?

[Arsen Arsenović]

Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:46:01PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> One thing I've been thinking of doing for a while is to make Texinfo
>> programs meet the XDG standard:
>> 
>> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>> 
>> The only file I'm aware of is .infokey for the info program, but there
>> may be others.  This would mean that the file moves from '$HOME/.infokey'
>> to '$HOME/.config/infokey' or possibly '$HOME/.config/texinfo/infokey'.
>> 
>> I feel it makes it easier when moving between different computers to
>> minimise the number of "dotfiles" in one's home directory and knowing
>> what is disposable and what should be kept.
>> 
>> Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
>
> I've done this.  I made it look under a subdirectory "texinfo" rather
> than directly in .config as that seemed the common way of using this
> directory.

That is, indeed, convention.  No need to presume we'll stay on one file.

> I also implemented looking for the infokey file in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for
> completeness, although it didn't seem as important as XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

That's good.  That way, the sysadmins can set up defaults.

Thanks for doing this.

Have a lovely night.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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