Mozilla Resolves 21-Year-Old Bug, Adds Full XDG Directory Support // @linuxiac
｢ Until now, Firefox placed nearly all of its user files—settings, profiles, data, and cache—inside a single folder called ~/.mozilla in the user’s home directory. This approach worked, but it also contributed to the familiar clutter many Linux users see when applications each create their own hidden folders ｣
https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-resolves-21-year-old-bug-adds-full-xdg-directory-support/
Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory
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Time for plumbing a whole new accessibility setting from desktop to toolkit: 3 hours
Time for knowing what to plumb: 20 years
Time for bikeshedding on the type of the setting: Positive infinity
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/115429613083886645
Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9077
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/114
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/discussions/1839
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/236
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3253
