Steven D'Aprano wrote: > As a Linux user, I really am sick of every damn application, script and > program under the sun filling the top level of my home directory with > dot-files. > > I wish the Linux Standard Base folks would specify that settings files > should all go into a subdirectory like ~/settings rather than filling up > the home directory with cruft. That was acceptable in the days when people > only looked at their files with ls, but in these days of GUI file > managers, it is ridiculous that there are more than 100 dot files and > directories in my home directory.
What difference does it make whether one is using a GUI or a command line? Anyway, the vast majority of Unix users I know still use ls a lot more often than GUI-based file managers. I prefer to keep my settings in ~/etc, as a sort of intuitive parallel to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. > <tilting at windmills> > > Can I ask developers to break with the obsolete and annoying habit of > creating user-specific config files as ~/.app-name and use > ~/settings/app-name instead? > > </tilting at windmills> Better: a user-specified $ETCDIR. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
