Fwd: [voting] move or not move icedtea-web to XDG specification in icedtea-web [0]

[Jiri Vanek]

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No opinions?

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Subject: [voting] move or not move icedtea-web to XDG specification in icedtea-web [0]
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:50:15 +0200
From: Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com>
To: Java Project <java-project at redhat.com>,        IcedTea Distro List <distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net>

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.