[systemd-devel] file-hierarchy. user persistent data dir.

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

Afaik, XDG defines $XDG_DATA_HOME or ~/.local/share to be the location for
such data, and various other chat clients use it for logs (it doesn't
exactly match /usr/share because XDG doesn't care for the rest of ~/.local).

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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On Jul 4, 2014 12:08 PM, "Ivan Romanov" <drizt at land.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Now specification defines system variable persistent data dir (/var) but
> not
> defines similar directory for user data. I developer of Psi+ (IM client)
>  when
> I was implementing XDG Base Directory Specification was questions where
> should
> be saved user conversation history. How I understand ~/.config is used for
> any
> settings of application, ~/.local/share is analogue of /usr/share, ~/.cache
> for data which always can be regenerated and can be freely removed. So no
> one
> from these dirs is not suitable for saving user data which is generating by
> application and needest only in this application on this machine (user
> conversation history for example).
>
> So I would like to see Persistent Variable User Data Directory in
> specification.
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