Re: Plasma 5 packages questions

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Daniel Vratil wrote:
>> In Plasma 5/KF5, the .kde folder is abandoned in favor of the
>> XDG-standardized folders ~/.config and ~/.local, so KDE 4 configuration is
>> not affecting Plasma 5 apps and vice-versa.
>
> For what it's worth, I still think that this is very broken. This worked
> much better in the KDE 3→4 transition (where upstream did not change the
> settings folder). Some distros did use a different folder for KDE 4
> settings, and some upstream developers think we were insane to not override
> the default they shipped, but IMHO having shared settings is much better for
> consistency. So I really don't like the KF5 setup. :-(
>
>         Kevin Kofler

I for one think it is better to follow standards that way software
developers don't have to ship different set of instructions for
different distributions and desktop environments.

-- 
Regards,
Sudhir Khanger.
sudhirkhanger.com
https://github.com/donniezazen
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