Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Game Developers: Standardize Custom User Files Path on Mac OS X and Linux Now!


Naev became XDG-compliant on *nix systems. By following the Freedesktop XDG Base Directory specification. Join the right cause! [edit]Here's a second post on the topic by the Naev developers.[/edit]

Examples of non-compliant ~/.placement:

.alephone .freeciv .OpenLieroX
.allacrost .freeciv-client-rc-2.2 .openttd
.ardentryst .frogatto .phlipple
.Avoision .frozen-bubble .q3a
.chromium-bsu .ivan.conf .redeclipse
.civserver_history .IvanSave .renpy
.coldest
.scavenger
.dosbox .minetest .supertux2
.fall-of-imiryn .nikki .teeworlds
.feuerteufel.conf .nikki-free-levels .trigger
.fife .openarena

And here are some good ones:

.config/flare .config/inkscape .config/mapeditor.org
.config/violetland

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