[voting] move or not move icedtea-web to XDG specification in icedtea-web [0]
Jiri Vanek
jvanek at redhat.com
Wed May 29 01:50:15 PDT 2013
I have proposed patch to move IcedTea-Web [2] to XDG specification and Omair took the review (the
backward compatibility is kept)
But we get into deadlock - Although personally I do not care if we will keep ~/.icedtea/{.config
.cache} or move to ~/{.config .cache}/.icedtea and afaik Omair is more inclined for XDG
specification there are several issues which made this decision 50/50 for us.
points to *do not* move to XDG
* Initially the file structure was designed to be as similar as proprietary plugin as possible
* also not XDG systems are using netx (we know about at least two windows users :)
points *to move* to XDG
* we have already some differences in file structure (from proprietary plugin)
* All modern distributions are following XDG as much as possible and the trend is to convert all
Linux applications to it.
* there is no known specification for windows which I'm aware of.
I would like to avoid to support both...
If somebody can give as golden ration or just vote for one of them then we will be very happy :)
Best regards,
J.
[0] See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947647 for more details - but not necessary :)
[1] I have tried to "fix this bug" and moved the icedtea-web to this specifikati -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947647 - but agian not neccesary.
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