<rant type=tangential> I wish someone would explain to KDE application creators why it is dangerous to store data in the configuration file tree. Especially when the configuration is hidden deep in .kde!
Listen to the anguished cries of many KDE users when they try to get back to a default configuration and realize that all their data is gone! </rant> On Wed 28 April 2010 13:58:09 Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/28/2010 01:52 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > And when desktop standards are actually adhered to with ~/.config/, "ls > > -a" is almost pleasant. > > And things aren't that bad these days either. Most of my gnome apps > store their configs in the .gnome2 directory. KDE apps have always used > .kde. While migrating to libetc (I need to patch it to exclude certain > dot files like .ssh I think), I deleted over 75% of my dot files as they > were obsolete. Some of them dating back 10 years. <snip> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
