On Wednesday 28 January 2015 18:07:14 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2015 08:43:41 CET, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > c) I simply don't care whether users have a "problem" with ~/.config > > containing many files, it's a directory for applications, not for the user > > I don't think this is much about "scaring the user" but how we behave wrt > and align to xdg habits. To mie it seems the directories (most of them) in > $HOME/.config specify the company name and there's indeed even a "kde.org" > directory (contains marble, phonon and kcmshell stuff - no idea whether > that's dated)
I agree with Thomas: This is not so much about your average user searching for config files as it is about being a good Linux (and I suppose POSIX in general) citizen and not being the only one who doesn't adhere to the rules (even if they're unwritten) To me, it's also about giving a good impression to distributions and sysadmins. We want to appear professional, not chaotic, don't we? > plasma-workspace related applications could redirect that to some > ~/.config/plasma/ dir and if google starts using KF5, they'd naturally want > to redirect that to ~/.config/Google - but I would argue that stuff that > writes via KConfigGroup is (w/o further specification) "related enough" in > managing it's config through KDE technology to write into some > "~/.config/kde" dir. I'll not interfere with the details because you guys know way more about that than I do, but we should put our files in _some_ directory below ~/.config