[LAD] RFC: Default discovery paths for LADSPA, LRDF, LV2 and DSSI (and more?)

[Steve Harris]

On 26 Jun 2009, at 11:50, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Steve Harris<steve at plugin.org.uk>  
> wrote:
>> On 24 Jun 2009, at 21:47, Chris Cannam wrote:
>>>
>>> (I've never really got on with the idea of using ~/.ladspa instead  
>>> of
>>> ~/ladspa -- these are perhaps substantial binary files, why hide  
>>> them
>>> in a configuration directory? -- but it seemed to be widespread for
>>> LADSPA hosts at the time DSSI was thought up, so we copied it for  
>>> the
>>> first DSSI hosts.)
>>
>> FWIW, I don't like it when apps create or use files in my home  
>> directory
>> that don't start with a dot, it makes my $HOME messy and conflicts  
>> with my
>> preferred arrangement of directories in some cases.
>
> Ah, so it's your fault!

Heh, I don't think I'm solely to blame :)

I don't object to the way OSX does it, with ~/Library/... that's just  
one directory with some app-specific rubbish in sub directories, but  
it's a bit late to go down that route in Linux.

- Steve