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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Structure in $HOME
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2003-01-12 23:49:57
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On Sunday 12 January 2003 04:35, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> I guess you could even say that
> the current kde way isn't all that great sense it is harder to remove all
> of the settings for a specific application.

rm $KDEHOME/share/apps/appname
rm $KDEHOME/share/config/appnamerc

only one more 'rm', and it keeps a seperation between data and settings. i 
don't want to lose my data just because i want to reset the configuration 
dialog... of course, that's what the Default Settings button is there for in 
the config dialog, which is what most users will use anyways.


i do like the idea of creating a single place for all desktop apps so that it 
is standardized (as i personally dislike the multitude of methods currently 
in use)... but there is good reason for using, for example, "share/config" 
(which isn't that different than .etc or .config, really?) since that mirrors 
other places such as /usr/share/config. this in turn makes it easy for both 
users and coders to conceptualize and implement things like the KDEDIRs 
configuration layering...

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Aaron J. Seigo
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