autostart spec changes

Rodrigo Moya rodrigo at gnome-db.org
Wed Mar 1 14:00:25 EET 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:55 -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 08:18, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > We've completed the implementation for GNOME of the autostart spec, but
> > deviated a bit from it due to a few problems we found.
> >
> > First, some people think using XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is wrong for .desktop
> > files. A better place would be XDG_DATA_DIRS/autostart, 
> 
> I disagree with that as I already explained here:
>    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/007783.html
> Has this been discussed on a mailinglist somewhere? I am interested to read 
> the arguments in favour of DATA_DIR.
> 
the main argument seems to be that DATA_DIRS is the place for
other .desktop files.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>




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