[kde-linux] my thought about kde 4.2

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 06 February 2009, Randy Kramer wrote:

> So, to try to make that clear(er), you'd have the /home/<user>
> hierarchy, and something else, maybe either /data/<user>
> or /config/<user>.  One would contain your data, one would contain your
> personalized configurations.

You could set XDG_DATA_HOME to something like /data/$USER and XDG_CONFIG_HOME 
to something like /config/$USER

> I recognize that this cannot be done overnight, as the change is rather
> far reaching--each application would have to be revised to seek its
> configuration data in one place and its user data in another.  (And
> then maybe put its temporary data in a third.) 

I think there is already $TMP from ancient times and the XDG base directory 
spec has another one called $XDG_CACHE_HOME for, well, cache files.

Cheers,
Kevin

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