Trash spec 0.2, technical questions

[Jaap Karssenberg]

On 30 Aug 2004 13:51:55 +0200 Alexander Larsson wrote:
: On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:36, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:04:38 +0400 Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
: > : Version 0.2 of the Trash Spec is now available. The location is
: > : unchanged:
: > : 
: > : http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html
: > 
: > Why not have a environment variable to specify the users trash dir ?
: > Say I would like to use $HOME/Trash instead of $HOME/.Trash I would
: > like to be able to set a variable for this. How about $TRASHDIR or
: > (to be coherent with the basedir spec) $XDG_TRASH_HOME ?
: 
: As an opposing view. Why have an environment variable to specify this?
: Just adding complexity for the sake of complexity is very bad.

Because being able to organise your "hidden" directories reduces
complexity instead of increasing it. At this moment I have 146 hidden
directories in my home directory that I can't move to a more organised
structure which makes browsing my home dir very bad for some
applications. This is why the basedir specification tries to create
order in this realm.

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