.kde or .kde4

[David Faure]

On Saturday 07 February 2009, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michael Pyne <mpyne at purinchu.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 February 2009, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> >> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009 23:30:57 Nathan England wrote:
> >> > What is the prefered ~/ config directory for kde 4.2 ?
> >>
> >> While we default to ~/.kde, you should be able to use both, so stay with
> >> ~/.kde4 if you're happy with it. Any KDE application relying on ~/.kde is
> >> certainly broken.
> >
> > KDE applications shouldn't muck about in the directory anyways, use the
> > kdelibs methods for accessing data instead. And if they do, they should use
> > the KDEHOME environment variable first (KDEHOME being unset is where default
> > values come into play).
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Michael Pyne
> 
> About that i would like to point out this link :
> http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data

Seems to be about gnome.

> Kde doesn't use the recommended freedesktop.org stuff for putting conf
> files and user data.

Well, we use the fdo dirs for things which make sense to share, like
trash, desktop files, mimetypes, etc.
But what's the point in putting e.g. kmailrc in ~/.local/share/config/ ?
No application other than kmail will ever read it -- and this would make it
more difficult to use the $KDEHOME trick to separate settings from two
versions of KDE.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).