On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:23:56 +1000 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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.
So it is the very rationale why dot-files historically considered as "hidden" in all unix shells and filemanagers. > <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> There is an other way around: look at your home dir as if it is your "settings" dir and don't clutter it with files other than application config dot-files. Just make ~/files/, ~/bin/ ~/lib/ etc. for it. -- jk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
