[kde] [Bug 422920] New: Store configuration files in ~/.config/ subdirectories

[John William]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422920

            Bug ID: 422920
           Summary: Store configuration files in ~/.config/ subdirectories
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: All
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: johnnrgwilliam at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

I have a small, somewhat pedantic, feature request.

Starting KDE/plasma just once creates hundreds of configuration files in
~/.config/. Most of those are tiny files concerning small simple aspects of my
desktop. It seems like most/all KCM modules creates one each, and so do KDE
applications/modules/subsystems.

I like that the KDE configuration is so simple and modular, but ~/.config/
seems very polluted.

Would it be possible to start using a more hierarchical approach to store the
configuration files? Like storing them into ~/.config/KDE/KCM/
~/.config/KDE/plasma/ ~/.config/KDE/apps/ etc.

I think that this would have a few advantages:

1. It would be easier to remove the whole configuration of KDE (and plasma, KCM
etc), to start KDE/plasma with a clean slate.

2. It would be easier to find both KDE and non-KDE config files. I was looking
at ~/.config/ to decide which files I should copy to my new system, but the
pollution of that directory is making this job tedious.

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