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

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM, David Faure <dfaure at trolltech.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>> Not at all. It's something that can be recreated, possibly taking a
>> lot of resources, not something unneeded.
> Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Therefore, desktop icons and window size
> and other settings indirectly changed by the user do NOT belong there.

That's _exactly_ why they belong there :). There is no way a
_computer_ can recreate such data on its own by means of any
calculations. What constitutes a cache to me is a pile of data that
could be recreated by the program if needed but keeping it around
requires significantly less resources. Think temporary internet files
or podcasts or your music collection's ID3 tag database or even a list
of first 123456 prime numbers.

Following your rationale I could argue that your spreadsheets and Word
document should be kept in cache as the *user* is perfectly capable od
recreating the data.

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Patryk Zawadzki