Re: master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The original standard was to use files that begin with a dot in the
> user's home directory, with system-wide defaults in /etc or /usr/etc.

I'd say that ad-hoc mess is just what happens organically if you have
no standard.  But sure, that was all we got from Unix, so I guess that
I will have to agree that we have seen two standards since 1969.

> I'm sure they will invent something else in a few years, which will of
> course be the best thing since sliced bread.

Well, sure.  OTOH, it took 15 years for us to warm up to the XDG BDS
enough to introduce xdg.el - and it is still at least somewhat
controversial - so I expect that we will not see any rush to implement
the new standard either.  ;-)