Where are all the non ~/.kde settings?

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Mon Jan 25 19:40:26 GMT 2010


On Monday, 2010-01-25, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have noticed that when removing ~/.kde some KDE settings remain,
> such as Dolphin's Places. Where are these settings stored? Why aren't
> they in ~/.kde?

Some settings are covered by freedesktop.org specifications so that they are 
or could be shared with applications built on different software stacks, e.g. 
GNOME.

In such cases they are stored in $HOME/.config (or whatever XDG_CONFIG_HOME 
points to).

Cheers,
Kevin

P.S: some "static" settings like entries in the application launcher menu are 
considered application data and thus stored under $HOME/.local/share (or 
wherever $XDG_DATA_HOME points to)
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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