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Fri 01 Nov 2013 05:01:39 PM UTC, comment #7:
See also bug #40444 that relates to an analogous request for Windows systems.
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Thu 13 Dec 2012 04:17:22 PM UTC, comment #6:
>Do you want the one to make a plan? Can you provide a patch?
Can you point me where .octaverc and .octave_hist are written?
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Mon 10 Dec 2012 04:28:31 PM UTC, comment #5:
> What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for GNU Octave?
Nothing is planned, but it looks like a good idea. Do you want the one to make a plan? Can you provide a patch?
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Sun 09 Dec 2012 08:34:00 AM UTC, comment #4:
>At least in Debian Wheezy, looking at all my environment
>variables, the only XDG variable I see is XDG_DATA_DIRS which is
>the less useful for us
There's no need to read the environment variable yourself : most language provide a library to use XDG folder:
with glib/GTK just replace g_get_home_dir() by
g_get_user_config_dir()
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Sat 08 Dec 2012 09:45:17 PM UTC, comment #3:
>but is anyone really following this specification?
GNOME,KDE, GTK and many upstream apps support this spec.
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Sat 08 Dec 2012 06:26:26 PM UTC, comment #2:
I'm very much in favour of this but is anyone really following this specification? At least in Debian Wheezy, looking at all my environment variables, the only XDG variable I see is XDG_DATA_DIRS which is the less useful for us. From their specification there's default values that should be used when their value is not used.
I meant to have proposed a ~/.octave directory rather than having a .octave_packages, .octaverc and .octave_hist files. But what tI was looking at the GNU Coding standards and didn't saw reference a reference to anything.
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Sat 08 Dec 2012 12:35:08 PM UTC, comment #1:
What is planned now about FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification for GNU Octave?
http://ploum.net/post/207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
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Wed 16 May 2012 03:20:01 AM UTC, original submission:
It seems like at least ~/.octaverc and ~/.octave_hist are stored in the home directory. It would be better to use the locations defined in the XDG Base Directory Specification.
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
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