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Re: Fwd: gnustep-base create $HOME/GNUstep/Library


From: Fred Kiefer
Subject: Re: Fwd: gnustep-base create $HOME/GNUstep/Library
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:28:08 +0100
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On 14.11.2011 09:25, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:


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From: Julián Moreno Patiño<darkjunix@gmail.com>
Date: 13 November 2011 21:58:31 GMT
To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: gnustep-base create $HOME/GNUstep/Library

Hi Dear GNUstep Developers,

I co-maintain open source unar package in GNU Debian (decompress rar files), it 
uses NSDate class. We want to avoid the creation of  $HOME/GNUstep/Library 
(it's created automatically by gnustep-base), because is not used by unar, are 
there a function, parameter or atribute to avoid this ?.

Thank you so much for your help.

This sort of thing is a recurring (though infrequent) issue ... people who 
don't expect/want to see a GNUstep directory in their home directory, and who 
(often) actively dislike the presence of anything other than the folders they 
are force to have by their operating system.  My impression is that the 
objection arises basically a certain sense of 'tidiness'.

Why don't we just change to using .GNUstep instead of GNUstep by default?

It depends on what we are going to store there. User defaults and stuff like the font cache (which hopefully isn't used that much any more) autosaves and the colour list definitions should well go into a .GNUstep directory. On the other hand, locally installed applications or libraries should in my opinion be placed in visible directories.

BTW I almost forgot to me mention that I would like to see the .GNUstepDefaults file be split up into a file per application. I cannot post this position often enough.



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