<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/9 Dieter Plaetinck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieter@plaetinck.be">dieter@plaetinck.be</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:10:33 +0200<br>
Guillem Jover <<a href="mailto:guillem@hadrons.org">guillem@hadrons.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:10:25 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:<br>
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> I guess the biggest issue would be trying to come up with a proper<br>
> definition for state.<br>
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> regards,<br>
> guillem<br>
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</div>Actually I think your "state vs configs" splitup is a very similar<br>
approach to my suggested "settings as configured by user/on behalf of<br>
user versus settings on behalf of the application itself" splitup at<br>
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-January/010157.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-January/010157.html</a><br>
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In practice, all settings that an app would like to store without<br>
explicitly requested by the user can probably all be categorised under<br>
state, so our ideas are very similar.<br>
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Your wording is probably better then mine, so a huge +1 from me for<br>
adding a 4th concept 'state' to the current list of cache, configs and<br>
data.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Am I correct in interpreting the above discussion as in the
consensus being that for now, what you refer to as state should be
saved in the .config directory, and that a future xdg version may
separate it into a third directory, perhaps to be named .state?<br><br>If
yes, could perhaps this be clarified in the standard? I just got a
patch for a command line shell I am maintaining from a user who had
written a patch to move the commandline history from .config to .cache.<br><br><br>Axel<br><br></div></div>