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Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:12:04 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:25:51 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > (defcustom image-dired-main-image-directory
> > (or (xdg-user-dir "PICTURES") "~/pics/")
> >
> > Why "~/pics/"? What platform behaves like that? Probably none.
>
> (I will reply to your other points separately, this is a bit of a tangent.)
>
> That's the old default, so if you don't use XDG this code will behave
> exactly as before. So this is a step forward on GNU/Linux, and
> everyone else is unaffected (unless they have specifically opted in).
It is a step forward for GNU/Linux, maybe, but it is a step back for
Emacs, for the reasons I explained.
> We could use something more reasonable than "~/pics" of course, which
> just seems to be what someone happened to be using at some point.
>
> I suggest "~/Pictures", which is at least used by XDG.
How about if we DTRT right away, and provide reasonable defaults for
all the non-XDG platforms (assuming we prefer platform-specific
defaults in this particular case)? I see no real reason to install
half-solutions.
Re: master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance, Stefan Monnier, 2021/10/25
Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/26
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/10/27
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/27
- Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory, Ihor Radchenko, 2021/10/27
- XDG config dir [Was: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory], Alexandre Garreau, 2021/10/27
- Re: XDG config dir [Was: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory], Ihor Radchenko, 2021/10/27