[kde-linux] my thought about kde 4.2

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bss at iguanasuicide.net
Sat Feb 7 02:52:45 UTC 2009


On Friday 06 February 2009 08:12:00 Randy Kramer wrote:
> Not directly on point to this post, but whenever this topic comes up I
> like to put my $.02--imho, it would be nice if this aspect of Linux was
> reconsidered and the concept of hidden files done away with, or at
> least, create (at least) two user directory hierarchies, one for "real"
> user data (i.e., containing my files, my music, ...) and another for
> application configuration data (I mean at the personal level).

XDG is (last time I checked) recommending applications install configuration 
into $HOME/.local/<appname> instead of $HOME/.<appname>.  KDE already puts 
temporary files into $KDE_HOME/tmp which is generally symlinked to /tmp.
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