[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS public_html/src/Writing/DWN

CVS User joey joey at infodrom.org
Wed Jan 24 20:57:53 CET 2007


Update of /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN
In directory finlandia:/home/users/joey/Projects/Web/public_html/src/Writing/DWN

Modified Files:
	dwn-2007-02.wml 
Log Message:
Polishing

--- /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-02.wml	2007/01/24 18:43:20	1.2
+++ /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-02.wml	2007/01/24 19:57:51	1.3
@@ -7,22 +7,18 @@
 
 # From: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <felipe at cathedrallabs.org>
 
-<p><strong>Proposing a new way to handle dotfiles in home directories.</strong>
+<p><strong>Dealing with personal Configuration and Data.</strong>
 Aigars Mahinovs <a
 href="http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/">\
-proposed</a> in his blog a policy to specify how aplications can store data and
-configuration information in users home folder, the idea is implementing the
-specification first in Debian and then promoting it for inclusion upstream and
-in other distributions as a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) extension.
-Mark Hymers <a
+proposed</a> a standard for applications to organise data and configuration
+files stored in the user's home directory as an extension to the <a
+href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</a>.  It
+should first implemented in Debian and then passed upstream.  Mark Hymers <a
 href="http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/#comment-20060">\
-commented</a> the post poiting to <a
+pointed out</a> that the <a
 href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html">\
-XDG Base Directory Specification FreeDesktop</a>, that already tries to
-address the config part of the problem.  On a related discussion at
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop">debian-desktop</a>, Christian
-Gatzemeier add some links for discussions held on FreeDesktop maillists about
-related issues.</p>
+XDG Base Directory Specification</a> from Waldo Bastian addresses
+configuration files already.</p>
 
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