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

[Stefan Monnier]

Philip Kaludercic [2021-10-25 16:14:33] wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> XDG is also prone to fashion changes.  What will we do when it goes
>> out of fashion, and we have dozens of xdg-user-dir calls in our
>> application code? change all of them to some latest desktop fashion?
> What do you mean by this?

The YEH spec from the Wayland++ guys is quite different, for one.

> Shouldn't XDG as a specification prevent this
> from being an issue?

It did back when people cared about it, but freedesktop.org has
been inaccesible for a few years now,


        Stefan from the future