[kde-linux] my thought about kde 4.2

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday 07 February 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 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>. 

Actually the recommendation is to put configs into wherever $XDG_CONFIG_HOME 
points to, or $HOME/.config/ if it is not set or empty.
So usually this would mean $HOME/.config/appname (file) or 
$HOME/.config/appname/ (dir)

$HOME/.local/ or more precisely $HOME/.local/share/ is the default for user 
local application data in case $XDG_DATA_HOME is not set or empty.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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