Home directories.

[oliver]

I still think there should be a $HOME/.etc for all user config/etc files 
to get the clutter out. FHS won't document it until distro's apps start 
supporting it, apps/distro's follow FHS and won't support it anytime 
soon because distro's and apps dont' have it.

cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:

>On Monday 25 October 2004 20:51, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
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>>On Monday 25 October 2004 20:40, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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>>>On Monday 25 October 2004 17:54, oliver wrote:
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>>>>Browsing through XFce's changesets I noticed they decided to use
>>>>.config for user based config files. They got that idea from the xdg.
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>>>$HOME/.config (and /etc/xdg) is for use by XDG specifications. I don't
>>>think it's a particular good idea if random apps start to use it in an
>>>undocumented way.
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>>don't worry the do place everything in a xfce4 subdir :-)
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>see http://www.xfce.org/~benny/file-locations.html for details
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