<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> <div>hi,</div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">the spec [1] only talks about</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">XDG_DATA_DIRS/HOME -> e.g. icons, docs, ... equiv of e.g. /usr/share</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/HOME -> settings, equiv of /etc</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">XDG_CACHE_DIRS/HOME -> e.g. a plugin cache, equiv of /var/cache</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">but there is nothing for plugins (equiv of /usr/lib). E.g. the user aquired the gstreamer mp3 decoder plugin from fluendo (which sits right now in ~/.gstreamer-0.10/plugins). If this would justify xdg where should t go instead? Would it make sense to add a</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">XDG_LIB_HOME -> $HOME/.local/lib</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">gstreamer could then use $XDG_LIB_HOME/gstreamer-0.10/</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">Would we also want this for executables?</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">XDG_BIN_HOME -> $HOME/.local/bin</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">As usual the names can be discussed as well :)</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace"> </font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace">Stfean</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New, monospace"> </font></div> <div>[1] <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html</u></font></a></div> <div> </div> </font> </body> </html>