Hi, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Gimp and many others software creates dotfiles. Because from the start > you configure it (cache size, temp dir). > Why should I want a per-user configuration option for temp file location?
> For their size? Apart from web browser cache, what can be so big? > So? Browser caches should be deleted too, when the browser is deinstalled. Anyway, there's email readers (my .sylpheed is 73 MBytes), news readers, picture browsers, ... my ~/.sylpheed is bigger than my ~/.kde. > Well designed software that change their configuration file should be > able to handle an older configuration file. That's not the point. The point is that a program will never be able to change the default for any option from FOO to BAR, because FOO is hardcoded in every user's configuration file -- and it can't know whether the user has FOO in there because they explicitly set it, or because it's the default. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de -- Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out. -- Zonker Harris