Home directories.

[Egbert van der Wal]

I think it would be a good idea to put all config-files in a separate 
directory in the homefolder instead of just in the homefolder. ~/.etc 
would make more sense than ~/.config because it's normal *nix practice 
to use /etc for that kind of things. It always bothers me how full my 
home directory is with all sorts of configs, even though they are 
somewhat hidden by the dot at the start of the file/directorynames. A 
bit catagorisation wouldn't be bad either, even if it was just a 
separation between games(~/.etc/games/), apps(~/.etc/applications/) and 
utilities(~/.etc/utilities/). It sure would clear things up a lot for me!

oliver wrote:

> well if you think only xdg should keep it's stuff in here, then it 
> should become $HOME/.etc/config
> but then, i'd recommend .etc/xdg or similar. if it's ONLY for xdg.
>
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
>> On Monday 25 October 2004 17:54, oliver wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Browsing through XFce's changesets I noticed they decided to use 
>>> .config
>>> for user based config files. They got that idea from the xdg.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> $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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Waldo
>>  
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