What constitutes "user configuration files" in the XDG basedir spec?

David Faure dfaure at trolltech.com
Thu Jan 15 03:44:15 PST 2009


On Thursday 15 January 2009, Vincent Untz wrote:
>  I kind of disagree with "These files
> are only to be edited by the user manually, or by the relevant program
> on behalf of a user because the user changed configuration through a
> GUI:", though.

Yes I disagree with this. Config files are used for much more than this,
and I don't see a problem with that. Config files are the best place to store
window size, toolbar positions, recent urls, etc. etc.

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