Where kde saves user settings ?

[Stephen Dowdy]

> For plasma5 and frameworks5 based apps, as I said, the freedesktop.org
> speced locations are normally used.  That's $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for
> config, and $XDG_DATA_HOME for app data.  If those aren't set... well,
> let me point you to the freedesktop.org website for the specs and you
> can read it yourself, but try ~/.config and ~/.local/share .
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/
>

FYI: here's a little POSIX shell snippet i use for diagnostics that can 
show you current XDG settings:

echo "[XDG Environment]"
while read var default; do
     printf "%24s = %s\n"  "${var}" "$(eval echo \${$var-${default}\(\*\)})"
done<<"EOF"
XDG_DATA_HOME       ${HOME}/.local/share
XDG_CONFIG_HOME     ${HOME}/.config
XDG_DATA_DIRS       /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS     /etc/xdg
XDG_CACHE_HOME      ${HOME}/.cache
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR     /run/user/$(id -u)
XDG_SESSION_ID
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE
XDG_SESSION_CLASS
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XDG_SEAT
XDG_VTNR
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR     $HOME/Desktop
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR   $HOME/Documents
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR    $HOME/Downloads
XDG_MUSIC_DIR       $HOME/Music
XDG_PICTURES_DIR    $HOME/Pictures
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR $HOME/Public
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR   $HOME/Templates
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR      $HOME/Videos
EOF
echo "(*) indicates variable unset and a default value substituted"