[OTR-users] Pretty-please standardize OTR signature storage, per OS.

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On 09/06/2013 11:26 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, subharo at hushmail.com wrote:
>>> Unix: ~/.config/otr
>>
>> .config? That seems too generic.
>
> the trailing "otr" directory removes the genericness: data and
> configuration storage would go in  ~/.config/otr/*
>
> ~/.config/ is the XDG standard location for configuration directories:
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html#variables
>
> whether stored tables of peer key material and associated identifiers
> are properly stored in XDG_CONFIG_DIR or XDG_DATA_DIR is probably a
> theological argument, though. :)

I stand corrected. I hadn't known about this before, but its quite big
in my own homedir right now. So yes, that seems to be an excellent
location.

Paul