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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Use ~/.etc/kde4 instead of ~/.kde4 for personal configs
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2007-09-18 18:42:15
Message-ID: 200709182042.28422.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> > Use ~/.etc/kde4/ for configuration and data instead of ~/.kde4/ for
> > KDE4.
>
> besides what others have said, the "proper" places are ~/.config
> and~/.local. 

Since this got crossposted to kde@kde.org as well an I saw it there first, I 
replied with a link to the base dir spec in my answer to this other list :(

>  would've been nice to have made that transition for kde4, getting
> rid of $KDEHOME as we know it, splitting out the config from the app data
> from tmp stuff (mostly this would mean reworking KStandardDirs) but it's a
> wee bit late at this point in the game imho.

I don't know any details about the KStandardDirs internals, but if it is of 
any help I did an implementation for the XDG base dir spec for Akonadi 
(kdepim/akonadi/libakonadi/xdgbasedirs.h/.cpp)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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