Trash specification

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi,

not sure why this showed up today, maybe it hang in some queue.

On Monday, 2010-06-21, Wei Jiang wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The Trash specification is very good. It is intent for Unix, but it is good
> for Windows as well, with minor modification.
> 
> I have implemented it for a cross platform (Unix and Windows) file manager
> Acelet Filer at http://www.acelet.com/desktop/filer.html.
> 
> I would like to comment about the Trash specification from my experience:
> 
> $XDG_DATA_HOME is difficult to implement.
> It is almost out of the capacity of trash implementer. Maybe I can modify
> .bashrc to add that environment variable, but the user may delete it
> later. I have checked Ubuntu 9.40 with Nautilus, $XDG_DATA_HOME is
> undefined.

If undefined or set to be empty it defaults to $HOME/.local/share
Thus distributions like in your case Ubuntu do not set it anywhere, they are 
fine with this default.

Cheers,
Kevin
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/attachments/20101011/2d67f82c/attachment.pgp>