On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Ann Barcomb wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > > >It is interesting that the freedesktop people, who are sort of becoming > >the guardians of the free unix application conventions, are migrating > >away from dotdirs, in a way. > > > >New apps are now tending to keep their config cruft under > >~/.config/<appname>, which is a bit similar to ~/Library/blah > > I think I wasn't clear in my hatred. > > I like having all my configurations in one directory. As someone else > mentioned, it is easier to keep things under revision control that way. > > I just want said directory to be invisible to a normal 'ls'. '.config' > is great. 'Library' is mildly irritating (or would be, if it was the > only required directory--as it is, with it being just one of many, it > is hateful).
Apologies, the lack of clarity was mine. I understand the whole "wtf is this stupid directory doing in my home directory" thing. It's pretty damn awful. I have a cronjob that rmdirs ~/Desktop for this reason. I was just being discursionary about the "where do the config files go" thing. I was just leaving it ambiguous as to which way to hate it. Options: - This is unix, and you're hiding the config crap where I won't think to look for it. (For example, where did those several gigs go? oh, all those files I delted are hiding in ~/.local/share/Trash How obvious) - As apps adopt this the location of your configuration data must be silently moved around your personal space, there will be risks of being unable to downgrade. - Why did it take 3 decades for Unix people to start correcting the error of the lamest namespace hack ever, when filesystems already had first class namespace support, ie. directories. - Who let these freedesktop people take charge of these decisions. They're obviously eager to recreate long-understood mistakes. There are probably others. -josh
