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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: Recommendation for $HOME
From:       David Faure <dfaure () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2006-12-28 12:55:03
Message-ID: 200612281355.04031.dfaure () trolltech ! com
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:28, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I agree utterly. I think the suggestion that
> $HOME/{var,etc,...} is too confusing for beginners is
> laughable.
Is it? My wife would surely be _very_ confused with those things in her $HOME.

> Are beginners not going to notice things outside of /home ? 
That's right. They aren't. They really don't need to go into /etc or /var.

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David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

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